Republic, Estonia and Slovakia are exceptions). Nevertheless, the initial export specialization pattern of CEE candidate …This paper analyses the competitiveness of the manufacturing industry in the CEE candidate countries (Bulgaria, the … Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia) with special emphasis on trade …

competitiveness at the macroeconomic and sectoral levels, in particular in the manufacturing industry. These features are described … competitiveness. First of all, labour productivity, particularly in manufacturing, grew at an outstanding rate, mainly due to FDI … attributed to improved competitiveness. The pronounced increase in manufacturing output, productivity and exports was based on …

(but the UK) but intensified the most in the new Member States. Moreover, it demonstrates that export growth is beneficial … performance-enhancing as results indicate that export growth and the degree of vertical specialisation tend to reinforce each … other. In particular, the effects of export growth on macroeconomic performance tend to be even higher if vertical …

these countries shifted their export structure towards parts. EU Southern countries are more strongly present in processed …

, individual Visegrad countries showed higher export growth rates to other Visegrad members in the post-accession period than in …

countries are enjoying an export boom which fuels their GDP growth. Russia has been profiting from rising world market commodity …

structures between seven Central and Eastern European countries (Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Bulgaria … structures and their developments. We analyse the export structure of CEECs, the development of market shares and the CEECs …' position with respect to export unit values. Second, we try to quantify the coverage of technical barriers to trade in the …