ISBN: 3540276874
TITLE: Structural Change and Exchange Rate Dynamics
AUTHOR: Welfens
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Contents
Introduction 1
Changes in Competitive Advantages of Transition Economies:
Measurement and Factors 9
Anna Wziatek-Kubiak and Dariusz Winek
Comment 33
Dieter Schumacher
EU Export Specialization Patterns in Selected Accession Countries 37
Dora Borbely
Comment 73
Kerstin Schneider
Sectoral Change and Economic Integration: Theoretical and Empirical Aspects of the Eastern Enlargement of the European Union 79
Roland Dhrn and Ullrich Heilemann
Comment 97
Paul J.J. Welfens
Structural Change and Economic Dynamics in Transition Economies 101
Albrecht Kauffmann
Comment 11.7
Christopher Schumann
Patterns of Industrial Specialization and Concentration in CEECs: Theoretical Explanations and their Empirical Relevante 119
Antje Hildebrandt and Julia Wrz
Comment 147
Simon Grtz
The Absence of Technology Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment in Transition Economies 149
Jutta Gnther
Comment 167
Federico Foders
Innovations, Technological Specialization and Economic Convergence in the EU 171
Andre Jungmittag
Comment 201
Andreas Pyka
Equilibrium Exchange Rates in the Transition: The Tradable Price-Based Real Appreciation and Estimation Uncertainty 205
Balazs Egert and Kirsten Lonunatzsch
Comment 241
Bernd Kempa
Innovation, Structural Change and Exchange Rate Dynamics in Catching-up Countries 245
Paul JJ. Wefens
Comment 279
Krzysztof Marczewski
List of Contributors 281
Index 283
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