The paper examines an issue related to the discussion of national specificity: whether the group of OECD countries are characterized by a high degree of stability of their export specialization patterns at the country level or not. During a period of nearly three decades from 1965 to 1992, 20...

Several researchers looking at the development of international export specialisation patterns have shown that there is a weak tendency for OECD countries to exhibit decreased levels of specialisation. This finding is in contrast to findings made by other authors, who found increasing...