Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/337456 
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Year of Publication: 
2026
Series/Report no.: 
KCG Working Paper No. 37
Publisher: 
Kiel Centre for Globalization (KCG), Kiel
Abstract: 
This short note looks at the link between churning of exporters and dynamics of exports using data from the World Bank Exporter Dynamics Database from 69 countries primarily for the period between 2003 and 2010. In line with Schumpetarian theory of creative destruction we report that a higher rate of turnover in export activity by entry and exit of firms in the year before is positively linked to export growth in the current year after controlling for unobserved time-invariant country effects and country-invariant time effects. Creative destruction is at work in exports.
Subjects: 
Exporter Dynamics Database
creative destruction
export entry
export exit
JEL: 
F14
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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