What You Export Matters

Ricardo Hausmann, Jason Hwang and Dani Rodrik

No 3c, Growth Lab Working Papers from Harvard's Growth Lab

Abstract: When local cost discovery generates knowledge spillovers, specialization patterns become partly indeterminate and the mix of goods that a country produces may have important implications for economic growth. We demonstrate this proposition formally and adduce some empirical support for it. We construct an index of the "income level of a country's exports," document its properties, and show that it predicts subsequent economic growth.

Keywords: specialization; productivity; growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F1 O4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-12
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