Trade

Ricardo Hausmann, Jason Hwang, Dani Rodrik , National Bureau Of Economic Research (NBER) , 2007
Trade

When local cost discovery generates knowledge spillovers, specializa- tion 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 sup- port for it. We construct an index of the "income level of a countrys exports," document its properties, and show that it predicts subsequent economic growth.

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