Showing papers by "James Tybout published in 1997"
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors quantified the effect of prior exporting experience on the decisions of Colombian manufacturing plants to participate in foreign markets and developed a dynamic discrete-choice model of exporting behavior that separates the roles of profit heterogeneity and sunk entry costs in explaining plants' exporting status.
Abstract: Recent theoretical models of entry predict that, in the presence of sunk costs, current market participation is affected by prior experience This paper quantifies the effect of prior exporting experience on the decisions of Colombian manufacturing plants to participate in foreign markets It develops a dynamic discrete-choice model of exporting behavior that separates the roles of profit heterogeneity and sunk entry costs in explaining plants' exporting status Sunk costs are found to be significant and prior export experience is shown to increase the probability of exporting by as much as sixty percentage points Copyright 1997 by American Economic Association
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a survey of the role of education vouchers in the provision of health care in developing countries, focusing on three types of projects: health care, education, and housing.
Abstract: Producer turnover and productivity growth in developing countries. Mark J. Roberts and James R. Tybout Housing and income distribution in Russia: Zhivago's legacy. Robert M. Buckley and Eugene N. Gurenko Beyond rate of return: reorienting project appraisal. Shantayanan Devarajan, Lyn Squire, and Sethaput Suthiwart-Narueput Economic analysis for health projects. Jeffrey S. Hammer New frontiers in project evaluation: a comment on Devarajan, Squire, and Suthiwart-Narueput. Arnold C. Harberger Education vouchers in principle and practice: a survey. Edwin G. West Is privatization through education vouchers really the answer? A comment on West. Martin Carnoy
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TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of the CFAF devaluation on industrial enterprises in Cameroon was assessed using detailed survey data spanning the 1992-95 period, and the effect of the devaluation had the expected effect of increasing the return to producing tradeable goods, and increased the real cost of using importing intermediate goods.
Abstract: This article assesses the impact of the CFAF devaluation on industrial enterprises in Cameroon. Using detailed survey data spanning the 1992-95 period , the article documents and interprets firms'reactions to the devaluation in terms of adjustments in output, factor usage, market orientation and productivity. The article shows that the CFAF devaluation had the expected effect of increasing the return to producing tradeable goods, and increased the real cost of using importing intermediate goods. Despite slow output growth, the pooled sample registered a cumulative rate of productivity growth exceeding 6 percent over the 1992/93 to 1994/95 period. Exporters appear to have done better than non-exporters, and medium-sized firms appear to have done the worst. These results are robust with respect to measurement technique, and can be obtained using either production or cost data. Hence encouraging signs of efficiency gains are present. The devaluation also influenced export supplies. Firms with low unit costs were relatively likely to become exporters, and tradeable goods producers, who were favored by the devaluation, expanded output. However, the number of firms in our sample that exported did not increase dramatically after the devaluation.
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TL;DR: In this article, el efecto que tienen las experiencias pasadas de exportacion in las decisiones que toman las plantas manufactureras colombianas de participar en los mercados externos was investigated.
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