Learning to Export : Evidence from Moroccan Manufacturing

Learning to Export : Evidence from Moroccan Manufacturing

The authors test two alternative models of learning to export: productivity learning, whereby firms learn to reduce production cost, and, market learning, whereby firms learn to design products that appeal to foreign consumers. Using panel, and cro...

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Main Authors: Fafchamps, Marcel, El Hamine, Said, Zeufack, Albert
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington D.C. 2013
Subjects:
MANUFACTURING DEVELOPMENT
MANUFACTURED EXPORTS
MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISES
EXPORT COMPETITIVENESS
PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH
PRODUCTION COSTS
MARKET ANALYSIS
FOREIGN ENTERPRISES
CONSUMER DEMAND
MARKET POTENTIAL
TEXTILES
LEATHER GOODS
MACROECONOMIC POLICY
EXPORT INCENTIVES
POLICY FRAMEWORK COMMERCE
COMPETITIVENESS
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
CONSUMERS
COST EFFECTIVENESS
DOMESTIC MARKET
DOMESTIC MARKETS
ECONOMIES OF SCOPE
ELASTICITY
ELASTICITY OF SUBSTITUTION
EMPLOYMENT
EXCHANGE RATE
EXPORT
EXPORT MARKETS
EXPORTS
EXTERNALITIES
FIXED COSTS
FOREIGN COMPETITION
FUTURE RESEARCH
IMPORTS
INFANT INDUSTRY ARGUMENT
INTERNATIONAL MARKETS
INTERNATIONAL TRADE
LABOR FORCE
LABOR PRODUCTIVITY
MACROECONOMICS
MARKET CONDITIONS
MARKETING
MINES
PRODUCERS
PRODUCTION FUNCTION
PRODUCTIVITY
PRODUCTIVITY INCREASES
QUOTAS
RANGE
RETURNS TO SCALE
ROUTE
SALES
SPREAD
SUNK COSTS
SWITCH
TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY
TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH
TOTAL SALES
TRADE LIBERALIZATION
TRANSACTION COSTS
UPPER
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/04/1765897/learning-export-evidence-moroccan-manufacturing
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13995

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/04/1765897/learning-export-evidence-moroccan-manufacturing
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13995

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