Kiel Working Papers, Kiel Institute for World Economics
No 1262:
Learning by Exporting: Does It Matter Where One Learns?
Natalia Trofimenko
Abstract: Learning-by-exporting proponents argue that exporting
increases productivity by exposing producers to new technologies or through
product quality upgrading. This study is based on the observation that the
technological superiority and severity of product quality requirements are
not the same in all export markets. If learning occurs through the
acquisition of new knowledge, exporting to less developed markets should
not generate as much productivity growth as exporting to advanced
countries. Using plant-level data from Colombia, I demonstrate that
exporting to advanced countries generates the highest productivity premium
and that the ability to benefit from exporting in general and exporting to
advanced markets in particular increases monotonically as one moves along
the conditional productivity distribution.
Keywords: learning by exporting, total factor productivity, export destination, quantile regression, instrumental variables; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: F10,; D24; (follow links to similar papers)
72 pages, December 2005
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