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Success and failure of African exporters

  • 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.

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Document Type:Article
Language:English
Author(s):Olivier Cardot, Leonardo Iacovone, Martha Denisse Pierola, Ferdinand Rauch
Parent Title (English):Journal of Development Economics
Publication year:2013
Publishing Institution:Hertie School
First Page:284
Last Page:296
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2012.12.004
Release Date:2019/05/17
Volume:101
Licence of document (German):Metadaten / metadata
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