Case study evidence suggests that exporting firms learn from their clients. But econometric evidence,mostly using exporting and TFP growth, is mixed. We use a UK panel data set with firm-levelinformation on exporting and productivity. Our innovation is that we also have direct data on thesources of learning (in this case about new technologies). Controlling for fixed effects we have twomain findings. First, we find firms who exported in the past are more likely to then report that theylearnt from buyers (relative to learning from other sources). Second, firms who had learned frombuyers (more than they learnt from other sources) in the past are more likely to then have productivitygrowth. This suggests some support for the learning-by-exporting hypothesis.
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