Success and failure of African exporters
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serval:BIB_7A77424DDE03
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
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Title
Success and failure of African exporters
Journal
Journal of Development Economics
ISSN
0304-3878
Publication state
Published
Issued date
03/2013
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
101
Pages
284-296
Language
english
Abstract
Using a new dataset with transaction-level export data from four African countries (Malawi, Mali, Senegal and Tanzania), this paper explores the determinants of success upon entry into export markets, defined as survival beyond the first year at the firm-product-destination level. We find that the probability of success rises with the number of same-country firms exporting the same product to the same destination, suggesting the existence of cross-firm externalities. We explore several conjectures on the determinants of these externalities and provide evidence suggestive of information spillovers, possibly mediated through the banking system.
Keywords
Africa, Export survival, Spillovers, Firms, Information
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