Trade and industrial upgrading in countries of central and eastern Europe: patterns of scale and scope based learning

Ulrike Hotopp (), Slavo Radosevic and Kate Bishop
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Ulrike Hotopp: Department of Trade and Industry

No 23, UCL SSEES Economics and Business working paper series from UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES)

Abstract: This paper explores mechanisms linking trade and restructuring in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries through learning and industrial upgrading. These are reflected in changes in the composition of trade through changes in the relative shares of particular products and clusters in exports (scale), and in the number of products exported (scope). An analysis of export clusters shows the decreasing importance of commodities (homogeneous resource-based goods) and a shift toward technology and labor-intensive products to be a common trend. However, differences between the countries are strong with respect to changes in both scale and scope in technology and labor-intensive activities. These differences show that trade-based learning mechanisms have strong effects on differences in industrial upgrading between CEE economies.

Keywords: corporate governance; ownership concentration; transition economies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2002-04
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Journal Article: Trade and Industrial Upgrading in Countries of Central and Eastern Europe: Patterns of Scale- and Scope-Based Learning (2005)
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