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The Birth and Growth of New Export Clusters: Which Mechanisms Drive Diversification?

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  • Dany Bahar

    (Center for International Development at Harvard University)

  • Rodrigo Wagner
  • Ernesto Stein
  • Samuel Rosenow

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Export diversification is associated with economic growth and development. Our paper explores competing mechanisms that mediate the emergence and growth of export products based on their economic relatedness to pre-existing exports. Our innovation is to simultaneously consider supply factors like labor, sourcing and technology; as well as demand factors like industry specific customer-linkages in a global setting. We find that, while technology and workforce similarity explain emergence and growth, pre-existing downstream industries remain a robust predictor of diversification, especially for jump starting new exports in developing countries. Our global stylized fact generalizes Javorcik’s (2004) view that spillovers are more likely in backward linkages.

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Keywords

comparative advantage; exports; relatedness; spillovers; R&D; patents; labor; upstream; downstream;
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JEL classification:

  • O14 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Industrialization; Manufacturing and Service Industries; Choice of Technology
  • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
  • F14 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Empirical Studies of Trade

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