Export diversification across countries and products: Do Eastern European (EE) and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries diversify enough?

References

• Acemoglu , D. , Johnson , S. and Robinson , J. A. 2001 . The colonial origins of comparative development: An empirical investigation . American Economic Review , 91 (December) : 1369 – 1401 . doi: 10.1257/aer.91.5.1369
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Babetskaia-Kukharchuk , O. and Maurel , M. 2004 . Russia's access to the WTO: What potential for trade increase? . Journal of Comparative Economics , 32 ( 4 ) : 680 – 699 . doi: 10.1016/j.jce.2004.08.005
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Baier , S. L. and Bergstrand , J. H. 2009 . Bonus Vetus OLS: A simple method for approximating international trade-cost effects using the gravity equation . Journal of International Economics , 77 ( 1 ) : 77 – 85 . doi: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2008.10.004
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Baldwin , R. E. 1994 . Towards an integrated Europe , London : Centre for Economic Policy Research .
   Google Scholar
• Besedes , T. and Prusa , T. J. 2006 . Product differentiation and duration of U.S. import trade . Journal of International Economics , 70 ( 2 ) : 339 – 358 . doi: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2005.12.005
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bleaney , M. and Greenaway , D. 2001 . The impact of terms of trade and real exchange rate volatility on investment and growth in Sub-Saharan Africa . Journal of Development Economics , 65 : 491 – 500 . doi: 10.1016/S0304-3878(01)00147-X
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Carrere , C. 2006 . Revisiting the effects of regional trading agreements on trade flowswith proper specification of gravity model . European Economic Review , 50 : 223 – 247 . doi: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2004.06.001
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Dixit , A.K. and Stiglitz , J.E. 1977 . Monopolistic competition and optimum product diversity . American Economic Review , 67 : 297 – 308 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Egger , P. 2002 . An econometric view of the estimation of gravity models and the calculation of trade potentials . World Economy , 25 ( 2 ) : 297 – 312 . doi: 10.1111/1467-9701.00432
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Feenstra , R. 2003 . Advanced international trade: Theory and evidence , Princeton, NJ and Oxford : Princeton University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Felbermayr , G. and Kohler , W. 2006 . Exploring the intensive and extensive margins of world trade . Review of World Economics , 142 ( 4 ) : 642 – 674 . doi: 10.1007/s10290-006-0087-3
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gros , D. and Gonciarz , A. 1996 . A note on the trade potential of Central and Eastern Europe . European Journal of Political Economy , 12 ( 4 ) : 709 – 721 . doi: 10.1016/S0176-2680(96)00024-9
   Google Scholar
• Hamilton , C. B. and Winters , L. A. 1992 . Opening up international trade with Eastern Europe . Economic Policy: A European Forum 7 (April): , : 77
   Google Scholar
• Hausman , J. A. and Taylor , W. E. 1981 . Panel data and unobservable individual effect . Econometrica , 49 : 1377 – 1398 . doi: 10.2307/1911406
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hausmann , R. , Hwang , J. and Rodrik , D. 2007 . What you export matters . Journal of Economic Growth , 12 ( 1 ) : 1 – 25 . doi: 10.1007/s10887-006-9009-4
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Helpman , E. , Melitz , M. and Rubinstein , Y. 2008 . Estimating trade flows: Tradingpartners and trading volumes . Quarterly Journal of Economics , 123 ( 2 ) : 441 – 487 . doi: 10.1162/qjec.2008.123.2.441
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Herzer , D. and Danzinger , F.N-L. 2006 . What does export diversification do for growth? An econometric analysis . Applied Economics , 38 ( 15 ) : 1825 – 1838 . doi: 10.1080/00036840500426983
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hummels , D. and Klenow , P. J. 2005 . The variety and quality of a nation's exports . American Economic Review , 95 ( 3 ) : 704 – 723 . doi: 10.1257/0002828054201396
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Imbs , J. and Wacziarg , R. 2003 . Stages of diversification . American Economic Review , 93 (March) : 63 – 86 . doi: 10.1257/000282803321455160
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Koren , M. and Tenreyro , S. 2007 . Volatility and development . Quarterly Journal of Economics , 122 (February) : 243 – 287 . doi: 10.1162/qjec.122.1.243
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lederman , D. and Maloney , W. F. 2003 . Trade structure and growth . World Bank Policy Research Working Paper no. 3025 (April) , SSRN. http://www.ssrn.com/abstract=402460
   Google Scholar
• Mehlum , H. , Moene , K. and Torvik , R. 2006 . Institutions and the resource curse . Economic Journal , 116 (January) : 1 – 20 . doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2006.01045.x
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Melitz , M. 2003 . The impact of trade on intra-industry reallocation and aggregate industry productivity . Econometrica , 71 ( 6 ) : 1695 – 1725 . doi: 10.1111/1468-0262.00467
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Robinson , J. A. , Torvik , R. and Verdier , T. 2006 . Political foundations of the resource curse . Journal of Development Economics , 79 (April) : 447 – 468 . doi: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2006.01.008
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wang , Z. and Winters , L. 1991 . The trading potential of Eastern Europe. CEPR Discussion Paper no. 610 , London : Centre for Economic Policy Research . http://www.cepr.org/pubs/dps/DP610.asp
   Google Scholar
• World Bank . 2005 . From disintegration to reintegration: Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union in international trade , Washington, DC : World Bank Publications .
   Google Scholar
• Wooldridge , J. M. 2005 . Simple solutions to the initial conditions problem in dynamic, nonlinear panel data models with unobserved heterogeneity . Journal of Applied Econometrics , 20 : 39 – 54 . doi: 10.1002/jae.770
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar