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Export promotion activities in developing countries: What kind of trade do they promote?
- Source :
- The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development. 21:539-578
- Publication Year :
- 2012
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2012.
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Abstract
- Information problems involved in trading differentiated goods are a priori acuter than those associated with trading more homogeneous products. The impact of export promotion activities intending to address these problems can be therefore expected to differ across goods with different degree of differentiation. Empirical evidence on this respect is virtually inexistent. This paper aims at filling this gap in the literature by providing estimates of the effect of these activities over firms trading different goods using highly disaggregated export data for the whole population of Costa Rican exporters over the period 2001-2006. We find that trade promotion actions favor an increase of exports along the extensive margin, in particular, in terms of destination countries, in the case of firms that are already selling differentiated goods. However, these actions do not seem to encourage exporter to start exporting these goods. Further, no significant impacts are observed for firms exporting reference-priced and homogeneous goods.
- Subjects :
- media_common.quotation_subject
Geography, Planning and Development
Population
jel:C23
Aerospace Engineering
Developing country
International trade
Development
Promotion (rank)
Margin (finance)
jel:O24
Trade Facilitation, Business Development, Public Administration & Policy Making, Export Promotion, Firms
jel:L25
Economics
Empirical evidence
education
media_common
education.field_of_study
Trade facilitation
business.industry
jel:F13
jel:F14
jel:L15
Homogeneous
jel:O17
business
Trade promotion
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14699559 and 09638199
- Volume :
- 21
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....cf4366f99edbe9d8885a3775b9f4c2d3
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09638199.2010.500741