TY  - JOUR
AU  - Hausmann,Ricardo
AU  - Hwang,Jason
AU  - Rodrik,Dani
TI  - What You Export Matters
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 11905
PY  - 2005
Y2  - December 2005
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w11905
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w11905.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Jason Hwang
Cornerstone Research
1 Exeter Street
Boston MA 02116
E-Mail: jjhwang@post.harvard.edu

Dani Rodrik
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: 617/495-9454
Fax: 617/496-5747
E-Mail: dani_rodrik@harvard.edu
AB  - When local cost discovery generates knowledge spillovers, specialization patterns become partly indeterminate and the mix of goods that a country produces may have important implications for economic growth. We demonstrate this proposition formally and adduce some empirical support for it. We construct an index of the "income level of a country's exports," document its properties, and show that it predicts subsequent economic growth.
ER  -