The export technology content, learning by doing and specialization in foreign trade

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: An, G; Iyigun, MF
• 署名单位: University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-1996
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2003.11.001
• 发表日期: 2004
• 页码: 465-483
• 关键词: Learning-by-doing; human capital; intra-industry; TRADE

摘要

We examine empirically whether countries with relatively little production and export experience specialize in the production and export of more standardized and lower-technology products, and those with more production experience produce and export more recently developed and higher-technology products. Using panel data covering 127 countries and the period between 1970 and 1997, we find that export experience does help to account for the variation in export content. Exporting experience influences a country's export mix more than its production experience, suggesting that there may be a trade-induced component of learning by doing in foreign trade specialization. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.