Exceptional exporter performance : cause, effect, or both?
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A growing body of empirical work has documented the superior performance characteristics of exporting plants and firms relative to non-exporters as discussed by the authors, showing that good firms become exporters, both growth rates and levels of success measures are higher ex-ante for exporters.About:
This article is published in Journal of International Economics.The article was published on 1999-02-01 and is currently open access. It has received 2416 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Productivity & Capital intensity.read more
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Judicial quality, contract intensity and trade : firm-level evidence from developing and transition countries
Yue Ma,Baozhi Qu,Yifan Zhang +2 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate how judicial quality affects firm exports through relationship-specific investment and find that a good legal system significantly increases exports among firms that use more customized goods as intermediate inputs.
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Offshore Outsourcing and Productivity: Evidence from Japanese Firm-level Data Disaggregated by Tasks
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Preparing to export
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that expected export status, predicted with current destination-country trade instruments, leads firms to prepare their workforce by hiring workers from other exporters, but only with reduced market penetration at the firm losing the worker.
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Innovation and Productivity in Services: Evidence from Chile
TL;DR: In this article, the firm-level relationship between innovation and productivity in the Chilean service sector using the manufacturing sector as a benchmark is analyzed empirically, and the authors find that manufacturing and service industries have similar determinants of the probability of introducing technological innovations.
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Empirical Research of the ISO 9001:2015 Transition Process in Portugal: Motivations, Benefits, and Success Factors
TL;DR: In this article, an empirical study of more than 300 Portuguese organizations ISO 9001 certified, or in certification process, encompassing a wide range of activities sectors, was carried out.
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The Decision to Export in Colombia: An Empirical Model of Entry with Sunk Costs
Mark J. Roberts,James Tybout +1 more
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.
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Is "learning-by-exporting" important? Micro-dynamic evidence from Colombia, Mexico and Morocco
TL;DR: The authors analyzed the causal links between exporting and productivity using firm-level panel data from three semi-industrialized countries and found that relatively efficient firms become exporters, but firms' unit costs are not affected by previous export market participation, while the well-known efficiency gap between exporters and non-exporters is due to self-selection of the more efficient firms into the export market, rather than learning by exporting.
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Exports and Success in German Manufacturing
Andrew B. Bernard,Joachim Wagner +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the role of exporting in German firms' performance and find no positive effects on employment, wage or productivity growth after entry into the export market and conclude that success leads to exporting rather than the reverse.