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Rising unit values of Central and Eastern European exports: Rising quality in transition?

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  • Petr Jansky

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This paper observes rising unit values, prices per kilogram, of Central and Eastern European exports and argues that it is an evidence of actual rising product quality during the transition period. We arrive at this conclusion by applying a number of methods on a best available dataset for the ten countries from 1995 to 2005. On this dataset we also apply two new methods to assess within-product sophistication and both support the results. We further apply methods for estimation of across-product sophistication, which have never been used in this context before and these reinforce our main results.

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  • Petr Jansky, 2010. "Rising unit values of Central and Eastern European exports: Rising quality in transition?," International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging Economies, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 3(2), pages 147-157.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijepee:v:3:y:2010:i:2:p:147-157
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    1. Kaitila, Ville, 2010. "Quality-adjusted similarity of EU-countriesŽ export structure," Discussion Papers 1227, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy.
    2. Seppo Honkapohja & Iikka Korhonen, 2013. "Restarting growth in Europe after the Great Recession: CEE versus other countries," Chapters, in: Ewald Nowotny & Peter Mooslechner & Doris Ritzberger-Grünwald (ed.), A New Model for Balanced Growth and Convergence, chapter 3, pages 19-35, Edward Elgar Publishing.

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