Successful export growth and diversification require not only entry into new export products and markets, but also the survival and growth of export flows. This paper uses a detailed, cross-country dataset of product level bilateral export flows to illustrate that exporting is an extremely perilous activity and especially so in low-income countries. The authors find that unobserved individual heterogeneity in product-level export flow data prevails...
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2009/06/01
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS4951
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2010/07/01
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Disclosed
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What explains the low survival rate of developing country export flows ?
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export flow