A Comparative Advantage Analysis of Kosovan Agriculture外文原文.pdfVIP

Export Structure, Export Flexibility and Competitiveness By Kurt W. Rothschild C o n t e n t s : I. The Shape of Export Functions. -- II. Structure and Competition: Are They Separable? -- III. A Look at Western European Export Developments. -- IV. Conclusion. I. The Shape of Export Functions ot so long ago - - at the beginning of the sixties - - a,well-known N expert on international trade literature could write: Economics is only now making the vital transition from qualitative tech- niques; at this stage few econometricians are ready to measure the weight of the various factors that determine a countrys exports and imports and few economists are ready to accept as definitive the m e a s u r e m e n t s set forth b y their more daring colleagues x. Since then a profound change has taken place as far as the first p a r t of the s t a t e m e n t goes. There is no shortage now of all sorts of export and import functions covering a m u l t i t u d e of countries and periods *. While they differ both with regard to structure and to the t y p e of variables included, most of t h e m have one thing in c o mmon: t h e y take their lead - - more or less pragmatically, explicitly or implicitly - - from some Remark: This study has been supported by a grant from the Austrian Fonds zur Far- derung der wissenscha#lichen Forschung. My thanks are also due to Mag. Monika Hutter and Mag. Wilfried Maschtera for assistance in statistical an