Trade Reorientation and Restructuring towards Fast-growing Emerging Economies: Crisis Response of the EU Member States

This paper deals with the geographical reorientation and product restructuring of trade as s a crisis-response strategy. We exploit the logic of constant market share analysis for decomposing the total change in export market shares into the contribution of the competitiveness effect and the structu...

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Autores principales: Yu. Shang, M. Svetličič, K. Zajc Kejžar
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:84cea39f7d78448294d74a875fffffb82021-11-07T14:45:04ZTrade Reorientation and Restructuring towards Fast-growing Emerging Economies: Crisis Response of the EU Member States2542-02402587-932410.23932/2542-0240-2020-13-4-6https://doaj.org/article/84cea39f7d78448294d74a875fffffb82020-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ogt-journal.com/jour/article/view/667https://doaj.org/toc/2542-0240https://doaj.org/toc/2587-9324This paper deals with the geographical reorientation and product restructuring of trade as s a crisis-response strategy. We exploit the logic of constant market share analysis for decomposing the total change in export market shares into the contribution of the competitiveness effect and the structure effect in terms of  geographical and product specialisation and apply it to the case of 2008/2009 global financial crisis (GFC) in the ‘old’ and ‘new’ EU member states. Constant market share analysis considering both gross and value-added trade  data indicates lack of proactive reorientation towards the fast-growing emerging economies in either the EU-15 or the EU-10. The product structure effect played a relatively more positive role in the old EU members during the crisis, particularly on account of the mid-tech product group, but technology upgrading was more pronounced in the new EU member states.While the analysis in this paper provides lessons from 2008/2009 GFC with respect to export pattern adjustments, the Covid-19 pandemic crisis differs from the GFC mainly in that it led to major global value chain disruptions which may lead to a certain degree of domestication, diversification and regionalization of GVCs implying trade reorientation from more distant countries towards nearby ones.Yu. ShangM. SvetličičK. Zajc KejžarАссоциация независимых экспертов «Центр изучения кризисного общества» (in English: Association for independent experts “Center for Crisis Society Studies”)articletrade structuretrade reorientationcrisis responseeuemerging marketsconstant market share analysisInternational relationsJZ2-6530ENRUКонтуры глобальных трансформаций: политика, экономика, право, Vol 13, Iss 4, Pp 117-143 (2020)
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collection DOAJ
language EN
RU
topic trade structure
trade reorientation
crisis response
eu
emerging markets
constant market share analysis
International relations
JZ2-6530
spellingShingle trade structure
trade reorientation
crisis response
eu
emerging markets
constant market share analysis
International relations
JZ2-6530
Yu. Shang
M. Svetličič
K. Zajc Kejžar
Trade Reorientation and Restructuring towards Fast-growing Emerging Economies: Crisis Response of the EU Member States
description This paper deals with the geographical reorientation and product restructuring of trade as s a crisis-response strategy. We exploit the logic of constant market share analysis for decomposing the total change in export market shares into the contribution of the competitiveness effect and the structure effect in terms of  geographical and product specialisation and apply it to the case of 2008/2009 global financial crisis (GFC) in the ‘old’ and ‘new’ EU member states. Constant market share analysis considering both gross and value-added trade  data indicates lack of proactive reorientation towards the fast-growing emerging economies in either the EU-15 or the EU-10. The product structure effect played a relatively more positive role in the old EU members during the crisis, particularly on account of the mid-tech product group, but technology upgrading was more pronounced in the new EU member states.While the analysis in this paper provides lessons from 2008/2009 GFC with respect to export pattern adjustments, the Covid-19 pandemic crisis differs from the GFC mainly in that it led to major global value chain disruptions which may lead to a certain degree of domestication, diversification and regionalization of GVCs implying trade reorientation from more distant countries towards nearby ones.
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author Yu. Shang
M. Svetličič
K. Zajc Kejžar
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M. Svetličič
K. Zajc Kejžar
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title Trade Reorientation and Restructuring towards Fast-growing Emerging Economies: Crisis Response of the EU Member States
title_short Trade Reorientation and Restructuring towards Fast-growing Emerging Economies: Crisis Response of the EU Member States
title_full Trade Reorientation and Restructuring towards Fast-growing Emerging Economies: Crisis Response of the EU Member States
title_fullStr Trade Reorientation and Restructuring towards Fast-growing Emerging Economies: Crisis Response of the EU Member States
title_full_unstemmed Trade Reorientation and Restructuring towards Fast-growing Emerging Economies: Crisis Response of the EU Member States
title_sort trade reorientation and restructuring towards fast-growing emerging economies: crisis response of the eu member states
publisher Ассоциация независимых экспертов «Центр изучения кризисного общества» (in English: Association for independent experts “Center for Crisis Society Studies”)
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