@article {1170456,
	title = {The Birth and Growth of New Export Clusters: Which Mechanisms Drive Diversification?},
	year = {2017},
	abstract = {Export diversification is associated with economic growth and development. Our paper explores competing mechanisms that mediate the emergence and growth of export products based on their economic relatedness to pre-existing exports. Our innovation is to simultaneously consider supply factors like labor, sourcing and technology; as well as demand factors like industry specific customer-linkages in a global setting. We find that, while technology and workforce similarity explain emergence and growth, pre-existing downstream industries remain a robust predictor of diversification, especially for jump starting new exports in developing countries. Our global stylized fact generalizes Javorcik{\textquoteright}s (2004) view that spillovers are more likely in backward linkages.},
	author = {Dany Bahar and Stein, Ernesto and Wagner, Rodrigo and Samuel Rosenow}
}
