This paper contributes to trade diversification literature by comparing changes in relative (i.e. assessed in … highly disaggregated trade statistics (4963 product lines) for 163 countries (1988-2010) and find that, despite differences …

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 …