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From Coffee Beans to Microchips: Export Diversification andEconomic Growth in Costa Rica

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 January 2015

Gustavo F.C. Ferreira  and
R. Wes Harrison
Gustavo F.C. Ferreira
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
R. Wes Harrison
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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Abstract

In the wake of a severe economic crisis in the 1980s Costa Rica abandoned animport substitution model of development adopted in the 1960s andimplemented policies supporting foreign investment and the diversificationof its exports. This study presents an application of the model proposed byHerzer and Nowak-Lehnmann to test the hypothesis that export diversificationhas contributed to economic growth in Costa Rica via externalities oflearning-by-doing and learning-by-exporting over the period of 1965–2006.After using the autoregressive distributed lags and dynamic ordinary leastsquares models no long-run relationship was found between exportdiversification and growth.

Keywords

Central AmericaCosta Ricaexport diversificationeconomic growthtime seriesF14054
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Research Article
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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 44 , Issue 4 , November 2012 , pp. 517 - 531
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Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 2012

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