, theorised by Kaname Akmatsu in the 1930s to explain export-driven development patterns in Japan, and neglected for a long time …. Through the calculation of Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA, or Balassa) index of import and export of a group of goods …

This paper examines the product specialisation of Italian exports over the period 1985-2001 to identify the roots of … Italy�s sluggish export performance with respect to world trade in the second half of the 1990s. In particular, the … countries. With regard to the first aspect, the paper finds that Italy�s export specialisation contributed to depressing total …

union. We find that the former ones are quite large. While France and Germany are very similar to the area as a whole, Italy …

Despite a declining trend in its world export market share since the beginning of the 90s, Italy is still today the …

, Marche, Veneto and the Italian average over 1992-2002. It is shown that, over the period, the four regions� export … with stronger world export growth, though they show some advantages in industries whose world demand rose at intermediate … regions� exports are generally more concentrated than the world�s in the low-tech sectors; the negative gap between the …

using export data on all products (about 700 from 4 digits of SITC) and all destination markets (about 70). On average, ERPT …, ERPT is incomplete when exports are directed to industrial countries and originate in oligopolistic industries, more …