Export survival and the dynamics of experience

Celine Carrere and Vanessa Strauss-Kahn ()
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Vanessa Strauss-Kahn: ESCP Europe and CEPII

Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv), 2017, vol. 153, issue 2, No 3, 300 pages

Abstract: Abstract This paper focuses on developing countries’ pioneer exports to the OECD and obtains several important results on export dynamics, linking export experience and export survival. Using product level data at the SITC 5-digit level for 114 developing countries over the 1962–2009 period, we show that prior export experience obtained in non-OECD markets significantly increases survival of pioneer exports toward the OECD. The experience does not need to last long, as gaining experience for more than two years does not confer any additional benefit. The effect of experience depreciates rapidly with time: a break in export experience prior to entering the OECD reduces the advantage on survival. Finally, the role of prior export experience is particularly relevant for survival in the first two years upon entry into the OECD. The geographic dynamic of export experience reveals that experience is acquired in neighboring, easy to access markets before reaching more distant, richer partners and ultimately serving the OECD with a higher probability of survival.

Keywords: Duration of export; Survival analysis; Experience and learning; Developing countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C41 F10 F14 O50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/s10290-017-0277-1

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