Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/269465 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
FERDI Working Paper No. P184
Publisher: 
Fondation pour les études et recherches sur le développement international (FERDI), Clermont-Ferrand
Abstract: 
We explore the heterogeneity in returns to export promotion across countries using a semi-parametric varying coefficient model. We find that a one percent increase in export promotion budgets generates an increase in export growth between 0.03 and 0.08 percent. Returns in terms of GDP per capita show less heterogeneity and vary from 0.05 to 0.07. Differences in the characteristics of export promotion agencies drive the heterogeneity in returns to export promotion across countries. More importantly, characteristics that may help export growth are not necessarily those that help GDP per capita growth.
Subjects: 
Impact evaluation
export promotion
JEL: 
F13
C14
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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