This project attempts to provide rigorous evidence on what governments can do to facilitate the transition from low-value added to high-value added exports (product diversification) or entry into new export markets (market diversification).
Eric Verhoogen
Eric Verhoogen is an Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs and Economics. His main research area is industrial development – applied microeconomic research on firms in developing countries. This area overlaps with the fields of development economics, international trade, labor economics, and industrial organization. A recurrent theme in his work is the process of quality upgrading in the manufacturing sectors of developing countries – its causes, consequences, and broader implications. He holds a PhD in Economics from Univesity of California and his fields of research are Development Economics, International Trade and Labor Market.
Researcher's Grant Projects
Grants Round: 24th Round
Country: Tunisia
PEDL themes: High growth entrepreneurship; Trade and macro models - agglomeration and spatial location of firms
Cross-cutting themes: Unlocking data for understanding markets and firms
By studying the football and surgical goods industries of Pakistan, this project seeks to identify barriers to upgrading in manufacturing firms such as high costs of high-quality inputs and fixed costs of innovation.
Grants Round: 2nd MRG round
Country: Pakistan
PEDL themes: The dynamics of SMEs: Informality and entrepreneurship; Modelling market frictions in LICs using newly available data; Understanding how constraints interact using micro-founded macro models; The role of export-oriented industries in driving growth
Cross-cutting themes: Fragile and conflict-affected states
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