-proportions trade vi) the world trade-to-output ratio increases over time. I argue that standard economic theories ignore the vast …

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the role of trade in productivity growth in a sample of 30 sectors in 25 EU … industries and only to a lower extent result from a shift towards higher productivity activities. Trade is found to be an … associated with efficiency gains, but intermediate good exchange and trade with New Member States exert a particularly strong …