The method of constant market shares analysis reconsidered

Jan Fagerberg and Gunnar Sollie

No 1987001, Working Papers Archives from Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo

Abstract: Constant market shares (CMS) analyses are frequently used in applied studies of export development. This paper reviews the development of the method and argues that it can be considerably improved. A new version of the method is developed which, in addition to the familiar CMS effects, also allows for the calculation of effects reflecting the ability of each country to adapt its export structure to the changes in the commodity and country composition of world imports. The method is applied to a sample of 20 OECD countries for the period 1961-83.

Pages: 16 pages
Date: 1987-01
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (46)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.tik.uio.no/InnoWP/archive/wpno001-1987.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:tik:wparch:1987001

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers Archives from Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by H&kon Normann ().