In this article, we examine the relationship between exports and economic growth both in the long run and in the short run. Before estimating the long-term equilibrium relationship between (log) exports and (log) GDP, we need to test whether they are cointegrated. In this study, we use the ARDL bounds test approach developed by Pesaran et al. (2001) to test if the variables are cointegrated. This approach offers a number of advantages over more conventional approaches (e.g., Johansen’s or Engle-Granger’s cointegration test) used in previous studies; namely, (1) it is applicable even if there is a mixture of I(0) and I(1) variables, (2) allows different series to have different lags in the ARDL (autoregressive-distributed lag) model, (3) the model estimates are relatively more efficient in small samples which is very important when high frequency data are not available. For example, GDP data are often only available on a quarterly basis.