IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/cre/crefwp/27.html

Export Promotion, Learning by Doing and Growth

Author

Abstract

This paper explores the quantitative link between export-promoting commercial policies and economic growth. We build and calibrate a dynamic general equilibrium model of a small developing economy. The economy's equilibrium is suboptimal due to monopolistic competition in the manufacturing sector and a human capital accumulation externality. Second-best commercial policy that promotes exports in the sector with the externality can lead to an increase in both welfare and growth rates. We show that export-promoting policies can lead to substantial quantitative increases in steady-state growth for a wide range of parameter values. Nous examinons dans ce texte le lien quantitatif entre les politiques commerciales qui encouragent les exportations d'une part et, d'autre part, la croissance économique. Nous développons et étalonnons un modèle dynamique d'équilibre général d'un petite économie en voie de développement. L'équilibre de l'économie est sous-optimal à cause de la concurrence monopolistique dans le secteur manufacturier et à cause d'une externalité au niveau de l'accumulation du capital humain. Des politiques commerciales de second rang qui encouragent les exportations dans le secteur où il y a l'externalité peuvent simultanément améliorer le bien-être et faire augmenter le taux de croissance. Nous montrons que de telles politiques peuvent avoir des effets importants sur la croissance pour une gamme de valeurs de paramètres assez large.

Suggested Citation

  • Steve Ambler & Emanuela Cardia & Jeannine Farazli, 1994. "Export Promotion, Learning by Doing and Growth," Cahiers de recherche CREFE / CREFE Working Papers 27, CREFE, Université du Québec à Montréal, revised Jul 1996.
    • Handle: RePEc:cre:crefwp:27
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.unites.uqam.ca/eco/CREFE/cahiers/cah27r.ps
    File Function: Main text
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: http://www.unites.uqam.ca/eco/CREFE/cahiers/cah27r.pdf
    File Function: Main text
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Other versions of this item:

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Joshua Aizenman & Jaewoo Lee, 2010. "Real Exchange Rate, Mercantilism And The Learning By Doing Externality," Pacific Economic Review, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 15(3), pages 324-335, August.
    2. Dissou, Yazid & Mac Leod, Carolyn & Souissi, Mokhtar, 2002. "Compliance costs to the Kyoto Protocol and market structure in Canada: a dynamic general equilibrium analysis," Journal of Policy Modeling, Elsevier, vol. 24(7-8), pages 751-779, November.
    3. Ioanna Konstantakopoulou, 2017. "The aggregate exports-GDP relation under the prism of infrequent trend breaks and multi-horizon causality," International Economics and Economic Policy, Springer, vol. 14(4), pages 661-689, October.
    4. Kazuhiko Yokota & Akinori Tomohara, 2009. "Extending the Learning-By-Exporting Hypothesis: Introducing a Credit Constraint," International Advances in Economic Research, Springer;International Atlantic Economic Society, vol. 15(2), pages 169-177, May.
    5. Sabine Mage-Bertomeu, 2006. "Les modèles d'équilibre général appliqués à la politique commerciale : développements récents," Revue d'économie politique, Dalloz, vol. 116(3), pages 357-381.
    6. repec:dau:papers:123456789/1696 is not listed on IDEAS

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;

    JEL classification:

    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
    • E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy; Modern Monetary Theory

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:cre:crefwp:27. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Stéphane Pallage (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/crefeca.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.