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Innovation, Structural Change and Exchange Rate Dynamics in Catching-up Countries

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This paper is part of two projects: EU fifth framework project “Changes in Industrial Competitiveness as a Factor of Integration: Identifying Challenges of the Enlarged Single European Market (Contract No. HPSE-CT-2002-00148); and the Project Russia’s Integration into the World Economy financed by the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation, Essen. For technical support I am grateful to Albrecht Kauffmann, EIIW Center at the University of Potsdam, Martin Keim at the University of Wuppertal and to Dora Borbély, European Institute for International Economic Relations at the University of Wuppertal. The usual disclaimer applies.

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Welfens, P.J. (2005). Innovation, Structural Change and Exchange Rate Dynamics in Catching-up Countries. In: Welfens, P.J., Wziątek-Kubiak, A. (eds) Structural Change and Exchange Rate Dynamics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-28526-1_18

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