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Some New Views on Product Space and Related Diversification

Önder Nomaler·Bart Verspagen
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We aim to contribute to the literature on product space and diversification by proposing a number of extensions of the current literature: (1) we propose that the alternative but related idea of a country space also has empirical and theoretical appeal; (2) we argue that the loss of comparative advantage should be an integral part of (testing the empirical relevance of) the product space idea; (3) we propose several new indicators for measuring relatedness in product space; and (4) we propose a non-parametric statistical test based on bootstrapping to test the empirical relevance of the product space idea.

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Önder Nomaler, Bart Verspagen. 2022-03-30. Some New Views on Product Space and Related Diversification. https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.16316

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