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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Business and Social Networks in International Trade
TL;DR: In this article, the role of transnational networks in alleviating problems of contract enforcement and providing information about trading opportunities is surveyed, and how domestic networks influence international trade through their impact on domestic market structure.
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Exports and Productivity: A Survey of the Evidence from Firm-level Data
Abstract: While the role of exports in promoting growth in general, and productivity in particular, has been investigated empirically using aggregate data for countries and industries for a long time, only recently have comprehensive longitudinal data at the firm level been used to look at the extent and causes of productivity differentials between exporters and their counterparts which sell on the domestic market only. This papers surveys the empirical strategies applied, and the results produced, in 45 microeconometric studies with data from 33 countries that were published between 1995 and 2004. Details aside, exporters are found to be more productive than non-exporters, and the more productive firms self-select into export markets, while exporting does not necessarily improve productivity.
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Do exports generate higher productivity? Evidence from Slovenia
TL;DR: The authors used matched sampling techniques to analyze whether firms that start exporting become more productive, controlling for the self-selection into export markets, and found that the productivity gains are higher for firms exporting towards high income regions.
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Plants and Productivity in International Trade
Andrew B. Bernard,Andrew B. Bernard,Andrew B. Bernard,Jonathan Eaton,Jonathan Eaton,J. Bradford Jensen,J. Bradford Jensen,Samuel Kortum,Samuel Kortum +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reconcile international trade theory with findings of enormous plant-level heterogeneity in exporting and productivity, and fit the model to bilateral trade among the United States and its 46 major trade partners, and see how well it can explain basic facts about U.S. plants: (i) productivity dispersion, (ii) the productivity advantage of exporters, (iii) the small fraction who export, and (iv) a small fraction of revenues from exporting among those that do).
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Trade, Quality Upgrading, and Wage Inequality in the Mexican Manufacturing Sector
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a new mechanism linking trade and wage inequality in developing countries, the quality-upgrading mechanism, and investigate its empirical implications in panel data on Mexican manufacturing plants.
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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.