TY - CHAP
T1 - Integration, institutions and export specialization
AU - Crabbé, Karen
AU - Beine, Michel
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - This paper studies the impact of economic integration and institutional reforms on export specialization in Central and Eastern Europe. The integration and transition process in Central and Eastern Europe offer us a good empirical setting to examine this research question. The empirical analysis is set up for ten Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC) over the period 1996-2008. We find robust results that better protected property rights and a fair credit policy lead to more diversified exports. Trade integration, on the other hand, stimulates export specialization, but institutions seem to be more important in explaining export patterns
AB - This paper studies the impact of economic integration and institutional reforms on export specialization in Central and Eastern Europe. The integration and transition process in Central and Eastern Europe offer us a good empirical setting to examine this research question. The empirical analysis is set up for ten Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC) over the period 1996-2008. We find robust results that better protected property rights and a fair credit policy lead to more diversified exports. Trade integration, on the other hand, stimulates export specialization, but institutions seem to be more important in explaining export patterns
KW - Export specialization
KW - Herfindahl index
KW - Institutions
KW - Tariffs
KW - Transition economies
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84881532285&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-00494-5_9
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-00494-5_9
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84881532285
SN - 9783319004938
T3 - Contributions to Economics
SP - 163
EP - 176
BT - Economic crisis in Europe and the Balkans
A2 - Karasavvoglou, Anastasios
A2 - Polychronidou, Persefoni
CY - Cham
ER -