Drivers of Export Upgrading

By Shujin Zhu, Xiaolan Fu. 2013

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This paper analyses the determinants of export upgrading using a cross-country panel dataset over the 1992–2006 period. The results suggest that the export sophistication of countries is enhanced by capital deepening, engagement in knowledge creation, transfers via investment in education and R&D and foreign direct investment and imports. Institutional quality also facilitates the export upgrading of countries. The effect of natural resources on the structural upgrading of exports appears to be complex and mixed and is dependent upon the type of resources involved. The effects of these determinants vary between low, middle, and high income country groups.

Subfields: Development, Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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In Development

1. Cassandra M. Sweet
2. P. Lectard
3. Gideon Ndubuisi
4. Solomon Owusu
5. Eric Rougier

In Economics and Econometrics

1. Cassandra M. Sweet
2. P. Lectard
3. Gideon Ndubuisi
4. Solomon Owusu
5. Shujin Zhu
6. Dalibor Sacha Eterovic Maggio
7. Renyu Li
8. Eric Rougier

In Strategy and Management

1. Cassandra M. Sweet
2. P. Lectard
3. Gideon Ndubuisi
4. Solomon Owusu
5. Shujin Zhu
6. Renyu Li
7. Eric Rougier

Citations in the corpus

• How important is GVC participation to export upgrading?* (2021, background): “Analyzing the drivers of export upgrading, Zhu & Fu (2013) find results that suggest that export sophistication of countries is enhanced by FDI and imports (percent of GDP).”
• Economic complexity, human capital and economic growth: empirical research based on cross-country panel data (2017, background): “Wang and Wei (2010), Zhu and Fu (2013) note that human capital is an important factor that affects export complexity.”
• Can Developing Countries Gain from Defying Comparative Advantage? Distance to Comparative Advantage, Export Diversification and Sophistication, and the Dynamics of Specialization (2018, background): “Our baseline econometric specification is drawn from the most recent empirical literature on the drivers of trade diversification (Munemo, 2011; Cadot et al., 2011b; Agosin et al., 2012; Parteka and Tamberi, 2013a) and export sophistication (Weldemicael, 2012; Zhu and Fu, 2013) All the variables of ”
• Do Stronger Intellectual Property Rights Increase Innovation (2015, background): “Third, we build on a new wave of research which is working toward unraveling the drivers of economic sophistication and understanding the institutional environments which foster more value-added production in developing countries (Zhu & Fu, 2013).”
• Does Institutional Quality Foster Economic Complexity? (2019, unknown): “1).9 Moreover, previous studies also suggest that these proposed pathways play a key role in shaping the worldwide variation in economic complexity (Hausmann&Rodrik, 2003; Hausmann et al., 2007; Costinot, 2009; Zhu & Fu, 2013; Zhu & Li, 2017; Lapatinas & Litina, 2019).”