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Does Learning by Exporting Happen? Evidence from the Automobile Industry in China
Author(s) -
Luong Tuan Anh
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
review of development economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1467-9361
pISSN - 1363-6669
DOI - 10.1111/rode.12043
Subject(s) - economics , productivity , consistency (knowledge bases) , china , automotive industry , econometrics , macroeconomics , computer science , engineering , artificial intelligence , political science , law , aerospace engineering
The concept that exporters learn from their exporting experience is a theoretical result that needs to be tested empirically. However, the literature provides mixed evidence. In this paper, to estimate productivity, an approach suggested by D e L oecker is applied, which corrects for econometric and consistency problems. Using a dataset for the C hinese automobile between 1998 and 2007, no evidence of learning by exporting was found. The data also suggests explanations for why it does not support this hypothesis.