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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The Impact of Trade on Organization and Productivity
TL;DR: The authors analyzes the impact of international trade on organization and calibrates the model to the U.S. economy and finds that firms that export will increase the number of layers of management.
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Trade responses to geographic frictions: A decomposition using micro-data
Russell Hillberry,David Hummels +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used data that track manufacturers' shipments within the US on an exceptionally fine grid, and found that the pattern of shipments is extremely localized, with shipments within 5-digit zip codes, which have a median radius of just 4 miles, are 3 times larger than shipments outside the zip code.
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Do Fresh Produce Exporters in Sub-Saharan Africa Benefit from GlobalGAP Certification?
TL;DR: In this paper, a survey of fresh produce export firms in 10 countries of sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on the determinants of GlobalGAP certification and the returns in terms of expansion of export sales revenue, is presented.
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Export propensity, export intensity and firm performance:the role of the entrepreneurial founding team
TL;DR: This article investigated how the characteristics and experience of the entrepreneurial founding team (EFT) affect the export orientation and subsequent performance of the businesses they establish, while allowing for the mutually reinforcing relationship between exporting and productivity.
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Firms' Exporting Behavior under Quality Constraints
TL;DR: The authors developed a model of international trade with export quality requirements and two dimensions of firm heterogeneity, namely, productivity and quality, and found that exporters are more likely to sell products of higher quality and at higher prices, pay higher wages and use capital more intensively.
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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.