What determines the export performance? A comparative analysis at the world level

• Author(s): Crespo, Nuno ; Fontoura, Maria Paula
• Date: 2010
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/2865
• Origin: Repositório da UTL
• Subject(s): Constant market share; Competitiveness; Export performance; International trade
• Document Type: Other
• Language: English

Description

We use constant market share (CMS) analysis to measure the variations in the market share of 82 of the world’s principal exporting countries between 1995/97 and 2005/07. The results of this analysis serve to stress the importance of competitiveness in explaining export performance. Furthermore, the existence is observed of a spatial tendency, reflected in the fact that countries that are geographically close to each other tend to display a similar behavior with regard to market share evolution and the components into which the variation is broken down.