TY - BOOK AU - Funke,Michael AU - Ruhwedel,Ralf TI - Export variety and economic growth in East Europe SN - 09670750 AV - HC244 ECO PY - 2005/// CY - Oxford PB - Blackwell Publishing KW - Economic transition KW - Export KW - Economic growth KW - Eastern Europe N2 - Utilizing panel data for 14 East European transition economies, we discuss the link between product variety and growth. The empirical work relies upon some direct measures of product variety calculated from 5-digit OECD trade data. On balance, the results suggest that the growth patterns of the East European transition countries may be best represented by Ventura's (1997) model of outward orientation and integration with the world economy UR - https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0351.2005.00206.x ER -