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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Firms' Productivity and Internationalisation Choices: Evidence for a Large Sample of Italian Firms
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provided evidence on the links between productivity and internationalisation choices for a large sample of both large and small-medium sized Italian firms, identifying those firms engaged in international activities through exports and/or horizontal FDIs.
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Export market participation with sunk costs and firm heterogeneity
Evis Sinani,Bersant Hobdari +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the importance of sunk costs, firm characteristics and spillovers from nearby exporters on a firm's decision to participate in exporting, and find that both sunk costs and observable firm characteristics are important determinants of export market participation.
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Export, Import und Produktivität wissensintensiver KMUs in Deutschland
Alexander Vogel,Joachim Wagner +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, anschliesende an die breite literatur zur Untersuchung von Produktivitatsdifferentialen zwischen international aktiven and nicht international aitiven Unternehmen liefert der vorliegende Beitrag erstmals Ergebnisse fur Deutschland die sowohl Export- als auch Importaktivitaten beruckichtigen.
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Quality heterogeneity and global economic growth
Elias Dinopoulos,Bulent Unel +1 more
TL;DR: This paper developed a fully endogenous, variety-expansion growth model with firm-specific quality heterogeneity, limit pricing, and an endogenous distribution of markups, where firms with high quality products engage in exporting, firms with intermediate-quality products serve the domestic market and inefficient firms with low quality products exit the market.
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Energy efficiency gains from importing intermediate inputs: Firm-level evidence from Indonesia
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated whether importing intermediate goods improves firm-level environmental performance in a developing country, using data from the Indonesian manufacturing sector, and they found evidence that becoming an importer of foreign intermediates boosts energy efficiency, implying beneficial effects for the environment.
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The East Asian Miracle: Economic Growth and Public Policy . A World Bank Policy Research Report. London: Oxford University Press, 1993. xvii, 289 pp.
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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.