Learning-by-Exporting Effects: Are They for Real?
By A. Fernandes, Alberto E. Isgut. 2015
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Abstract In this article, we thoroughly examine the learning-by-exporting (LBE) hypothesis for Colombian manufacturing plants during 1981–91 and find significant evidence in its favor. The results are robust to the use of different samples of the data set, different econometric methods, and different modeling approaches. We find that export experience acquired by plants in years before the previous year has an important effect on plant productivity and that the effect of export experience on productivity is nonsignificant for exporters that stopped exporting in the previous year. We also find evidence of diminishing returns to export experience in that LBE effects are quantitatively lower for the experienced exporters in our sample.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management
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- Learning-by-Exporting: What We Know and What We Would Like to Know (2012, background): “Based on Arrow ́s concept of learning, which relies on experience in solving problems and challenges, Fernandes and Isgut (2005) presented a study for Colombian plants for the period 1981-1992 in which they specifically studied LBE for younger plants that enter into exports and that, much more than ”