A further examination of the export-led growth hypothesis

Christian Dreger and Dierk Herzer

No 84, FIW Working Paper series from FIW

Abstract: This paper challenges the common view that exports generally contribute more to GDP growth than a pure change in export volume, as the export-led growth hypothesis predicts. Applying panel cointegration techniques to a production function with non-export GDP as the dependent variable, we find for a sample of 45 developing countries that: (i) exports have a positive short-run effect on non-export GDP and vice versa (short-run bidirectional causality), (ii) the long-run effect of exports on non-export output, however, is negative on average, but (iii) there are large differences in the long-run effect of exports on non-export GDP across countries. Cross-sectional regressions indicate that these cross-country differences in the long-run effect of exports on non-export GDP are significantly negatively related to cross-country differences in primary export dependence and business and labor market regulation. In contrast, there is no significant association between the growth effect of exports and the capacity of a country to absorb new knowledge.

Keywords: Export-led growth; Developing countries; Panel cointegration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 F43 O11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35
Date: 2012-05
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