01795cas a2200313 a 4500 AALejournalIMF001109 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451842173 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Funke, Michael. Product Variety and Economic Growth : Empirical Evidence for the Oecd Countries / Michael Funke. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2000. 1 online resource (25 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This paper uses panel data for 19 OECD countries and finds support for the hypothesis that a greater degree of product variety relative to the United States helps to explain relative per capita GDP levels. The empirical work relies upon some direct measures of product variety calculated from 6-digit OECD export and import data. Although the issue is still far from being settled, the emerging conclusion is that the index of relative product variety across countries is significantly correlated with relative per capita income levels. Mode of access: Internet Economic Growth imf OECD Countries imf Panel Data imf Product Variety imf WP imf United States imf IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2000/005 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2000/005/001.2000.issue-005-en.xml IMF e-Library