Does what you export matter : in search of empirical guidance for industrial policies - Lederman, Daniel; Maloney, William F. (Washington,D.C World Bank)
Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations xi -- 1 Introduction -- Conceptual Issues -- What Makes a Good Good? -- Beyond Goods -- Notes PART I WHAT MAKES A GOOD GOOD? -- 2 Cursed Goods: Natural Resources -- Stylized Facts and the Mechanisms of the Curse -- The Elusive Resource Curse -- Notes 3 Rich Country “High Productivity” Goods -- What Are High PRODY Goods? -- Of Monkeys and Trees -- Notes 4 Smart Goods Wage Premiums and Educational Endowments in Latin America -- Wage Premiums across Industries -- Country and Industry Effects on Skill Premiums -- Exports and Industry Skill Premiums -- Notes -- PART II BEYOND GOODS -- 5 EXPORT HETEROGENEITY ALONG THE QUALITY DIMENSION -- Export Heterogeneity along the Quality Dimension -- How Do Latin America and the Caribbean Compare in Export Unit Values? -- Unit Value Dynamics -- What Affects the Growth of Unit Values? Countries versus Industries -- Entry and Exit Patterns -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6 Heterogeneity in the Production of Goods -- How Things Are Produced Matters -- Smart Goods or Smart Production Processes? -- Goods or Tasks? -- Notes -- 7 Trade Quality as Portfolio Diversification -- Market Failures in Product Innovation and Diversification -- Scarce Evidence of Market Failures -- Natural Resources, Export Concentration, and Volatility -- Volatility as a Determinant of Export Structure and Financial Development -- The Distribution of Manufactured Exports -- Notes -- 8 Conclusion and Policy Reflections -- Bibliography -- Index --
Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-119) and index.
Keywords: Economic development; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; INDUSTRIAL POLICY; EXPORTS; LATIN AMERICA