Die starke Exportorientierung der deutschen Elektroindustrie stellt angesichts der globalen Leistungsbilanzungleichgewichte die Branche vor besondere Herausforderungen. Andreas Gontermann, ZVEI, Frankfurt am Main, legt dar, dass es neben einer Stärkung der Binnenkräfte gilt, auf der Basis von...

Die Chemische und Pharmazeutische Industrie ist nicht zuletzt wegen ihrer starken Export- und Forschungsorientierung einer der Wachstumsträger der deutschen Volkswirtschaft. Prinzipiell gilt dies auch für Ostdeutschland. Wie in diesem Beitrag gezeigt wird, sind insbesondere die dortigen...

We explore the impact of FDI and imports, disaggregated at the sectorial level, on the upgrading of African exports. We distinguish flows from other developing countries (South-South) and developed countries (North-South), and find that they impact differently on the ability of recipients to...

Considering that primary commodity dependence continues to be a major problem of various lower income countries, we analyze whether Aid for Trade (AfT) has helped recipient countries upgrade and diversify their exports. Estimating an asymmetric and aggregated gravity model, we find that AfT has...

The role of the banking industry in export promotion cannot be over-emphasized as banks provide the necessary financial support for borrowers in various industries to undertake investment activities. With the help of an industry-level dataset on bilateral trade flows between various countries, I...

We explore the effects of openness to trade on growth and the implications for income convergence in Africa. Fixed-effect estimation results indicate that the evidence on the direct impact of openness to trade on growth is mixed and there is no support for conditional convergence. On the other...

This paper empirically examines the role of diversification in export markets on firm-level R&D activities. We show that geographical sales diversification across different regions of the world induces UK firms to increase their R&D expenditures, as firms must innovate and develop new products...

There is evidence that suggests that one of the channels through which the exchange rate could have an impact on growth is export product diversification. I distinguish between the variety and concentration dimensions of export diversification and review the theoretical and empirical literature...

In this paper we study the linkage between export structure and economic development in Russian regions. We conjecture that not only export variety per se, but export variety of related products, located at a small distance in the product space, significantly contributes to economic growth....