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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Self-selection along different export and import markets
Francesco Serti,Chiara Tomasi +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a rich database on Italian manufacturing firms was used to investigate the relationship between trade status and firm characteristics, showing that firms exporting to and importing from high income countries face higher sunk costs than those trading with less developed markets.
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Productivity Differences and Foreign Market Entry in an Oligopolistic Industry
Andrzej Cieślik,Michael J. Ryan +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show how productivity differences between foreign and indigenous firms affect the choice of the foreign market entry strategy and identify the conditions necessary for the adoption of a particular strategy depending on the competing firms' productivity differences as well as each strategy's cost.
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Trade, Foreign Networks and Performance: A Firm-Level Analysis for India
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the combined role of import and export intensity in a context of foreign networks and showed that the more Indian firms are involved in trade networks, the more they have a productivity advantage.
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Selection effects with heterogeneous firms
Monika Mrázová,J. Peter Neary +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors characterize how rms select between alternative ways of serving a market and show that first-order selection effects are extremely robust, whether rms enter or not.
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Learning through foreign market participation: the relative benefits of exporting, importing, and foreign direct investment
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors extend the literature to explore theoretically the differential effects of a firm's exporting, foreign direct investment, and importing activity on its innovative outcomes, and find that learning associated with exporting is more pronounced than that associated with a firms's FDI activities, and that exporting and FDI operate as substitutes in their effect on a firms' learning.
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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.