'Distance from the core' and new export survival: Evidence from Chilean exporters

Daniel Goya and Andres Zahler ()

No 2017-01, Working Papers from Escuela de Negocios y Economía, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso

Abstract: An important part of aggregate export growth is due to firms adding new varieties to their export baskets. We contribute to the literature on export flow survival by showing that a measure of the 'distance' between a new export and the previous export basket is a significant determinant of the survival of a new firm-product export flow. We present evidence suggesting that the measure we use is a good proxy for the theoretical 'distance from the core' in Eckel and Neary (2010), and that it is capturing technological, rather than demand complementarities across products.

Keywords: Export diversification; extensive margin; export survival; product proximity. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F14 L25 O30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-10
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