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The Determinants of Regional Manufactured Exports from a Developing Country

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  • Marianne Matthee
  • Wim Naudé

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In this paper, the question of the location of exporters of manufactured goods within a country is investigated. Based on insights from new trade theory, the new economic geography (NEG) and gravity-equation modelling, an empirical model is specified with agglomeration and increasing returns (the home market effect) and transport costs (proxied by distance) as major determinants of the location decision of exporters.

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  • Marianne Matthee & Wim Naudé, 2007. "The Determinants of Regional Manufactured Exports from a Developing Country," WIDER Working Paper Series RP2007-10, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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