Entrepreneurship and the Extensive Margin in Export Growth : A Microeconomic Accounting of Costa Rica’s Export Growth during 1997-2007

Successful exporting countries are often seen as successful economies. This paper studies the role of new exporting entrepreneurs – defined as firms that became exporters – in determining export growth in a fast growing and export oriented middle-income country i.e., Costa Rica during 1997-2007. It...

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Main Authors: Lederman, Daniel, Rodríguez-Clare, Andrés, Yi Xu, Daniel
Language:en_US
Published: World Bank 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13493