effect. From 1994 to 2007 the EU25 withstood the competition of emerging countries better than the U.S. and Japan. European … states. More precisely, the EU gains market shares in the upper segment of the market, by cumulating good performance and …, all developed countries lose market shares in high-technology products to developing countries, with the EU losing less …

(geographical and sectoral) and a pure performance effect. We regard the EU-27 as an integrated economy, excluding intra-EU trade … of world trade. Since 1995 the EU-27 withstood the competition from emerging countries better than the United States and … Japan. The EU market shares for high-technology products, as well as in the upper price range of the market, proved …