The major aim of this thesis is to analyze the impact of structural change of exports and technology level on the international competitiveness. In order to analyze international competitiveness, export market shares are used. The empirical analysis suggested in this thesis includes two steps. In the first step, constant market share analysis is conducted to understand the causes of changes in export market shares from one period to another and in the second step a difference generalized method of moments model is proposed for 44 manufacturing sectors, which are classified with respect to their technology intensities, over 2003- 2008 period. The results are highly sensitive to the technology intensity of sectors.

The objective of this paper is to analyze the export performance of Turkish manufacturing industries in the East-Asian countries between the years 1992-2002. SITC (Rev.3), three digit data were used in calculations and three methodologies were applied in order to discover promising sectors of the Turkish exports. Constant Market Share Analysis was used to explain the causes of the change in the market shares of the exports of Turkey from one period to another. Revealed comparative advantage indices were calculated to determine sectors in which Turkey had comparative advantage. Grubel-Lloyd Index was used to determine the rate of intraindustry trade. Results signal important changes in the export structure of Turkey.

Submitted by Silvana Teresinha Dornelles Studzinski (sstudzinski) on 2015-07-06T12:45:06Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Manuela Gomes de Lima.pdf: 883281 bytes, checksum: 4b78d080e8a45e184d5ff754cbf2c0a8 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-07-06T12:45:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Manuela Gomes de Lima.pdf: 883281 bytes, checksum: 4b78d080e8a45e184d5ff754cbf2c0a8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Nenhuma / O objetivo principal deste trabalho foi avaliar, com base na literatura recente sobre competitividade internacional, o desempenho exportador de China, Estados Unidos, Alemanha, Rússia, Coreia do Sul, Japão e Brasil entre 2000 e 2011. Por meio da aplicação do modelo de Constant-Market-Share foi possível quantificar a participação da composição da pauta, da distribuição dos mercados de destino e da competitividade na variação das exportações desses países. Verificou-se que o crescimento da demanda internacional favoreceu as economias exportadoras de bens intensivos em recursos naturais e que os países que priorizaram mercados mais dinâmicos (principalmente a Ásia) tiveram resultado positivo no fator mercado. Os resultados para o efeito competitividade foram menos precisos, pois seus fatores determinantes têm impacto variável conforme o padrão de especialização de cada economia. / The main objective of this study was to evaluate the export performance of China, United States, Germany, Russia, South Korea, Japan, and Brazil between 2000 and 2011, based on the recent literature on international competitiveness. By applying the Constant-Market-Share model, it was possible to quantify the contribution of the product composition, market distribution and competitiveness on countries’ exports growth. It was found that growing international demand favored the commodity exporters and also countries that have prioritized the most dynamic markets (especially Asia). The results for the competitiveness effect were less accurate because its determinant factors’ impact varies according to the specialization pattern of each economy.