Intra-industry trade between European Union and Transition Economies. Does income distribution matter?
Hubert Gabrisch, Maria Luigia Segnana
IWH Discussion Papers,
No. 155,
2002
Abstract
EU-TE trade is increasingly characterised by intra-industry trade. For some countries (Czech Republic), the share of intra-industry trade in total trade with the EU approaches 60 percent. The decomposition of intra-industry trade into horizontal and vertical shares reveals overwhelming vertical structures with strong quality advantages for the EU and shrinking quality advantages for TE countries wherever trade has been liberalised. Empirical research on factors determining this structure in an EU-TE framework has lagged theoretical and empirical research on horizontal trade and vertical trade in other regions of the world. The main objective of this paper is, therefore, to contribute to the ongoing debate over EU-TE trade structures, by offering an explanation of intra-industry trade. We utilize a cross-country approach in which relative wage differences and country size play a leading role. In addition, as implied by a model of the productquality
cycle, we examine income distribution factors as determinates of the emerging
EU-TE structure of trade flows. Using OLS regressions, we find first, that relative
differences in wages (per capita income) and country size explain intra-industry trade, when trade is vertical and completely liberalized and second, that cross country differences in income distribution play no explanatory role. We conclude that if increasing wage differences resulted from an increasing productivity gap between highquality and low-quality industries, then vertical structures will, over the long-term create significant barriers for the increase in TE incomes and lowering EU-TE income differentials.
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Trade Structure and Trade Liberalization: The emerging pattern between the EU and Transition Economies
Hubert Gabrisch, Maria Luigia Segnana
MOCT-MOST 11,
2001
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Regional Disparities in Transition Economies: a Typology for East Germany and Poland
Franz Barjak
Post-Communist Economies,
2001
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Transition from Planned to Market Economies Ten Years on
Jens Hölscher, Johannes Stephan
Journal for East European Management Studies (JEEMS),
No. 1,
2000
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Pension Reform in Hungary
Peter Gedeon
IWH-Sonderhefte,
No. 5,
2000
Abstract
In Hungary social policy reforms in general and the pension reform in particular followed the introduction of the institutions of market economy with a considerable time lag, if at all. Although it was clear from the outset that the communist welfare state could not be sustained, comprehensive institutional reforms in the pension or health care systems were not introduced in the first six years of the postsocialist transition. This uneasiness to reform the social security systems has to do with the contradicting constraints decision makers have to face in the process of systemic change.
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Financial crisis and problems yet to solve - Conference proceedings
IWH-Sonderhefte,
No. 6,
2000
Abstract
Since the beginning of 1997, a currency and/or banking crisis broke out in several transition countries (Bulgaria, Romania, the Czech Republic, Russia, Ukraine). In 1995, Hungary avoided a financial crisis by adjusting properly her macroeconomic policies. Financial markets in transition countries are still small. They gain, however, more and more importance for the entire economy. Part of the countries mentioned are candidates for EU membership. They have to show their ability to stabilize their exchange rates and financial sectors. The fact that overcoming the financial crisis in Asia and Latin America required international assistance (e.g. IMF) underlines the political importance of strategies of preventing such crises in the EU's immediate neighborhood.
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The incomplete transformation - East Germany's economy ten years after the introduction of the D-Mark
Rüdiger Pohl
Wirtschaft im Wandel,
No. 8,
2000
Abstract
Von Anfang an gehört zur ostdeutschen Transformation, dass positive und negative Bewertungen ihrer Ergebnisse und Auswirkungen nebeneinander bestehen. Gewinner und Verlierer der Transformation, Erfolg gegen Misserfolg: in diesen Begriffspaaren zeigt sich die Ambivalenz der ostdeutschen Entwicklung. Zehn Jahre nach Einführung der DMark hat sich an den harten Kontrasten in den Urteilen nichts geändert.
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Transition from Planned to Market Economies Ten Years on
Jens Hölscher, Johannes Stephan
Osteuropa-Wirtschaft,
No. 2,
2000
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Trade structure and trade liberalization. The emerging pattern between the EU and transition economies
Hubert Gabrisch, Maria Luigia Segnana
IWH Discussion Papers,
No. 108,
1999
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The Asian and the Russian financial crises: Propagation effects and policy responses in Central Europe's transition economies
Lucjan T. Orlowski
IWH Discussion Papers,
No. 104,
1999
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