Export Pioneers in Latin America

Authors

Charles F. Sabel, Columbia Law SchoolFollow
Eduardo Fernández-Arias, Inter-American Development BankFollow
Ricardo Hausmann, Harvard UniversityFollow
Andrés Rodriguez-Clare, University of California BerkeleyFollow
Ernesto Stein, Inter-American Development BankFollow

Document Type

Working Paper

Publication Date

2012

Abstract

Export Pioneers in Latin America analyzes a series of case studies of successful new export activities throughout the region to learn how pioneers jump-start a virtuous process leading to economic transformation. The cases of blueberries in Argentina, avocados in Mexico, and aircraft in Brazil illustrate how an initially successful export activity did not stop with the discovery of a single viable product, but rather continued to evolve. The book explores the conjecture that costly burdens to entrepreneurial self-discovery (due to the deterrent effects of imitation by competitors) have held back potential exporters in post-reform Latin America. It also considers the conjecture that new export activities are a complex enterprise that can only come to fruition when innovative contributions of many actors are somehow provided jointly.

Disciplines

Comparative and Foreign Law | International Trade Law | Law | Law and Economics

Recommended Citation

Charles F. Sabel, Eduardo Fernández-Arias, Ricardo Hausmann, Andrés Rodriguez-Clare & Ernesto Stein, Export Pioneers in Latin America, Inter-American Development Bank Book No. IDB-BK-107; Columbia Law & Economics Research Paper No. 421 (2012).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/1753