Success and failure of African exporters

被引：95

作者：

Cadot, Olivier ^{[1
]}

Iacovone, Leonardo ^{[2
]}

Pierola, Martha Denisse ^{[2
]}

Rauch, Ferdinand ^{[3
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

[2] World Bank, Washington, DC USA

[3] Univ Oxford, Oxford OX1 2JD, England

来源：

JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS | 2013年 / 101卷

关键词：

Africa; Export survival; Spillovers; Firms; Information; DURATION; FIRMS; MARKETS; ENTRY; COSTS;

D O I：

10.1016/j.jdeveco.2012.12.004

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

Using a new dataset with transaction-level export data from four African countries (Malawi, Mali, Senegal and Tanzania), this paper explores the determinants of success upon entry into export markets, defined as survival beyond the first year at the firm-product-destination level. We find that the probability of success rises with the number of same-country firms exporting the same product to the same destination, suggesting the existence of cross-firm externalities. We explore several conjectures on the determinants of these externalities and provide evidence suggestive of information spillovers, possibly mediated through the banking system. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：284 / 296

页数：13

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