Andreas Reinstaller, Agnes Kügler, Peter Reschenhofer and Klaus S. Friesenbichler

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Bilateral corporate coherence and trade diversification at the firm level

The paper introduces a novel indicator of technological relatedness across firms. It considers both imported inputs and exported products to assess the similarity of firms in terms of their technological capabilities in Austria. The indicator captures technological similarity more closely than measures relying solely on exported products or overlapping industry classes. Descriptive results indicate that […]

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Structural change in trade and the development of the manufacturing share

This paper examines structural change in global trade and its impact in the development of manufacturing shares across countries over time. It focuses on the dynamics of variety creation and destruction in exports and links the observed outcomes to the development of manufacturing shares across countries. The results show that while there is an inverse-U-shaped […]

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The impact of the scope of technological search on path dependence in export specialisation: Evidence for European countries

This paper examines how product relatedness and the breadth of technological search affect the path-dependent development of export specialisations across countries documented in prior research. The results of the econometric analysis in this paper show that broader technological search in an industry has a positive impact on the development of comparative advantages in the product […]

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