What You Export Matters

Ricardo Hausmann, Jason Hwang, Dani Rodrik

NBER Working Paper No. 11905
Issued in December 2005
NBER Program(s):   ITI

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.

This paper was revised on March 10, 2006

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Document Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3386/w11905

Published: Ricardo Hausmann & Jason Hwang & Dani Rodrik, 2007. "What you export matters," Journal of Economic Growth, Springer, vol. 12(1), pages 1-25, March. citation courtesy of

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