Product complexity and economic development

By Arnelyn Abdon, M. Bacate, J. Felipe, U. Kumar. 2012

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Unit Labor Costs in the Eurozone: The Competitiveness Debate Again (2014, methodology): “Using a data set covering 5,107 HS-6 digit products and 125 countries, Abdon et al. (2010) document complexity (a combination of diversification and ubiquity of the export basket) at the country and product levels.”
Economic complexity, human capital and income inequality: a cross-country analysis (2019, background): “Broadly speaking, capabilities at firm level capture the organizational capacity, associated with the formation, management, and operation of production activities (Felipe et al., 2012).”
Export upgrading and growth: the prerequisite of domestic embeddedness (2013, background): “(2007) measure of export sophistication (Felipe et al., 2012).”
Linking Economic Complexity, Institutions and Income Inequality (2015, background): “…0.841 0.746 1990-1999 1.000 0.869 2000-2008 1.000 Correlation between PGI and product complexity Figure A2 illustrates a strong and negative correlation between PGI and the Product Complexity Index (PCI) (Hidalgo & Hausmann, 2009; Hausmann et al., 2014; Felipe et al., 2012) for different decades.”
Does Institutional Quality Foster Economic Complexity? (2019, positive): “The underlying intuition is that an enhanced ability to produce a variety of sophisticated products, typically characterized by high and increasing returns, reflects the amount of productive knowledge within an economy (Hidalgo & Hausmann, 2009; Felipe et al., 2012; Hidalgo, 2021).”
The Link between Economic Complexity and Carbon Emissions in the European Union Countries: A Model Based on the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) Approach (2019, neutral): “A more complex productive structure may lead to higher productivity and higher growth rates, while increasing exports shares of the most complex products may be positively associated with income increase [15].”
Beyond the Stereotype: Restating the Relevance of the Dependency Research Programme (2020, result): “Meanwhile, in contrast to a lot of developing countries which are still exporting unsophisticated, highly standard products that offer little potential for upgrading through diversification (Felipe et al., 2012), China has made significant advances in terms of upgrading.”
Economic complexity, human capital and economic growth: empirical research based on cross-country panel data (2017, methodology): “Changing the RCA* threshold in the regressions Many studies such as H-H (2009) and Felipe et al. (2012) calculate economic complexity by setting the RCA threshold to 1 according to formulas (1) and (2).”