Cadot, Olivier; Carrere, Celine; Strauss-Kahn, Vanessa - 2011
The paper explores the evolution of export diversification patterns along the economic development path. Using a large … intensive and extensive margins. We find a hump-shaped pattern of export diversification similar to what Imbs and Wacziarg (2003 …) found for production. Diversification and subsequent reconcentration take place mostly along the extensive margin. This hump …