Does What You Export Matter? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Does What You Export Matter? write by Daniel Lederman. This book was released on 2012-06-18. Does What You Export Matter? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Does what economies export matter for development? If so, can industrial policies improve on the export basket generated by the market? This book approaches these questions from a variety of conceptual and policy viewpoints. Reviewing the theoretical arguments in favor of industrial policies, the authors first ask whether existing indicators allow policy makers to identify growth-promoting sectors with confidence. To this end, they assess, and ultimately cast doubt upon, the reliability of many popular indicators advocated by proponents of industrial policy. Second, and central to their critique, the authors document extraordinary differences in the performance of countries exporting seemingly identical products, be they natural resources or 'high-tech' goods. Further, they argue that globalization has so fragmented the production process that even talking about exported goods as opposed to tasks may be misleading. Reviewing evidence from history and from around the world, the authors conclude that policy makers should focus less on what is produced, and more on how it is produced. They analyze alternative approaches to picking winners but conclude by favoring 'horizontal-ish' policies--for instance, those that build human capital or foment innovation in existing and future products that only incidentally favor some sectors over others.
How Exports Matter
How Exports Matter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How Exports Matter write by David B. Audretsch. This book was released on 2012. How Exports Matter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this paper we first propose a proxy for the maturity of a country's export bundle based on product life cycle theory. Employing a conditional latent class model, we then examine the effect of maturity of countries' exports on their economic growth for 98 countries over the period 1988 to 2005. We find that this effect is different across three endogenously determined growth regimes and that real GDP per capita predicts the regime membership. We show that the richest countries grow faster when they specialize in less mature products in an advanced country regime. The effect of maturity turns insignificant for the least advanced countries in our developing country regime. And at intermediate levels of GDP per capita, in an emerging country regime, countries grow faster and exhibit strong convergence by exporting more mature products. Our results confirm earlier evidence that what you export matters for growth. But more importantly, our analysis shows that when you export matters too. Countries in early stages of development should focus on acquiring market share in mature markets with routine technologies whereas emerging economies face the challenge of at some point switching from mature to new products as they approach the technology frontier. At that frontier they must join the advanced economies who continuously switch into (increasingly) less mature innovative products to stay ahead of increasing competition from abroad.
Why Exports Matter
Why Exports Matter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why Exports Matter write by J. David Richardson. This book was released on 1996. Why Exports Matter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The second part of this two-part study documents the superior performance of export plants and firms, as well as their workers in all skill categories, relying on data from 1992 through 1995. Among new findings are stronger and more stable employment growth for exporters.
Why Exports Matter
Why Exports Matter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why Exports Matter write by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Taxation and Finance. This book was released on 1997. Why Exports Matter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Why Exports Really Matter!
Why Exports Really Matter! - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why Exports Really Matter! write by J. David Richardson. This book was released on 1995. Why Exports Really Matter! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first part of this two-part study assesses the performance of US firms, plants, and workers engaged in export activity, compared with their nonexporting counterparts. It summarizes new statistical evidence, with case studies, on how exports have more value to more people than appreciated.
