Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/77011 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
IWH Discussion Papers No. 184/2003
Publisher: 
Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle (IWH), Halle (Saale)
Abstract: 
This paper supplements prior analysis on 'patterns and prospects' (Stephan, 2003) in which prospects for the speed of future productivity growth were assessed by looking at the specialisation patterns in domestic production. This analysis adds the foreign trade sphere to the results generated in the prior analysis. The refined results are broadly in line with the results from the original analysis, indicating the robustness of our methods applied in either analysis. The most prominent results pertain to Slovenia and the Slovak Republic. Those two countries appear to be best suited for swift productivity catch-up from the viewpoint of sectoral specialisation. Poland and Estonia exhibit the lowest potentials. Only for the case of Poland would results suggest bleak prospects.
Subjects: 
manufacturing industry
foreign trade specialisation
structural change
productivity growth
productivity gap
transition economies
catch-up
JEL: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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