| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w16597 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 16597 |
| African Export Successes: Surprises, Stylized Facts, and Explanations | |
| William Easterly; Ariell Reshef | |
| 发表日期 | 2010-12-09 |
| 出版年 | 2010 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We establish the following stylized facts: (1) Exports are characterized by Big Hits, (2) the Big Hits change from one period to the next, and (3) these changes are not explained by global factors like global commodity prices. These conclusions are robust to excluding extractable products (oil and minerals) and other commodities. Moreover, African Big Hits exhibit similar patterns as Big Hits in non-African countries. We also discuss some concerns about data quality. These stylized facts are inconsistent with the traditional view that sees African exports as a passive commodity endowment, where changes are driven mostly by global commodity prices. In order to better understand the determinants of export success in Africa we interviewed several exporting entrepreneurs, government officials and NGOs. Some of the determinants that we document are conventional: moving up the quality ladder, utilizing strong comparative advantage, trade liberalization, investment in technological upgrades, foreign ownership, ethnic networks, and personal foreign experience of the entrepreneur. Other successes are triggered by idiosyncratic factors like entrepreneurial persistence, luck, and cost shocks, and some of the successes occur in areas that usually fail. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Economics of Information ; International Economics ; Trade ; Development and Growth ; Development ; Innovation and R& ; D ; Growth and Productivity |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w16597 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/574272 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | William Easterly,Ariell Reshef. African Export Successes: Surprises, Stylized Facts, and Explanations. 2010. |
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| w16597.pdf（822KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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