Assessing East-Asian Export Performance

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to develop a comprehensive empirical framework that tracks export performance dynamics among EA-9 and five supplementary economies on a comparable basis over time, among economies, and across sectors. The study focuses on the pre-crisis period from 1980 to 1996 in order to evaluate whether changes in these indicators in the mid-1990s provide evidence that export competitiveness of the EA-9 may have deteriorated significantly during the 1995/96 export slump.