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| Title | Do African Manufacturing Firms Learn from Exporting? |
| Abstract | Authors use firm-level panel data for the manufacturing sector in four African countries to investigate whether exporting impacts on efficiency, and whether efficient firms self-select into the export market. Based on simultaneous estimation of a production function and an export regression, authorsÂ’ preferred results indicate significant efficiency gains from exporting, which can be interpreted as learning by exporting. They show that modelling unobserved heterogeneity by a flexible approach is important for deriving this conclusion. A policy implication of their results is that Africa would gain from orientating its manufacturing sector towards exporting. |
| Date | 2003 |
| Language(s) | English |
| Pages | 35 pages |
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