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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2018
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
GUT FME Working Paper Series A No. 6/2018 (52)
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Gdańsk University of Technology, Faculty of Management and Economics, Gdańsk
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This paper addresses the lack of connection between theory and empirics in most export diversification - economic development studies. We provide a Ricardian-based theoretical explanation of countries' relative export variety as a function of the level of technology and country size assessed with respect to the rest of the world. Relative export diversification is an outcome of two forces: a relative productivity change (technological progress) and a relative country size change (labour force growth). The model predictions are confirmed in a sample of 132 countries (1988-2014), including 53 low-income countries, for which we measure export variety using product-level trade data. The influence of technology differences on export variety is: (i) stronger than is the effect of cross-country differences in size and (ii) non-linear, driving diversification at the beginning of the development process. The results are robust to the measurement of export variety, the inclusion of control variables, and estimation methods.
Schlagwörter: 
export variety
export diversification
Ricardian model
economic development
JEL: 
F11
F14
F43
O40
O11
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