The Effects of Export Diversification on Macroeconomic Stabilization: Evidence from Korea

Jinsoo Lee () and Bok-Keun Yu ()
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Jinsoo Lee: KDI School of Public Policy and Management
Bok-Keun Yu: Economic Research Institute, The Bank of Korea

No 2018-25, Working Papers from Economic Research Institute, Bank of Korea

Abstract: This paper studies whether export diversification mitigated the negative effect of the global financial crisis on exports using the Korean case. Specifically, we use annual data on the exports of 24 Korean manufacturing industries from 2000 to 2016 and examine whether the negative effect of the crisis on exports was less prevalent in industries that were more diversified in terms of country and product. We also examine whether export competitiveness, measured by the revealed comparative advantage index by industry, had a mitigating effect on trade during the crisis. In order to study these issues, we use a panel regression with a fixed-effect model for 24 Korean manufacturing industries. From our empirical analysis, we find that country diversification weakened the negative impact of the global financial crisis on Korea¡¯s exports, but neither product diversification nor export competitiveness did so.

Keywords: Export diversification; Global financial crisis; Macroeconomic stabilization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E60 F10 F40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2018-08-20
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