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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Export and Firm Performance: Evidence on Productivity and Profitability of Italian Companies
TL;DR: In this article, the relation between export and profitability was investigated in Italian exporting firms and it was shown that exporting activity is not systematically associated with higher firm's profitability, both by means of non-parametric methods and with an approach that is more standard within the empirical trade literature.
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R&D, productivity, and exports: Plant-level evidence from Indonesia
Chih Hai Yang,Ying Hui Chen +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relation between productivity and exports in Indonesian manufacturing firms by taking account the endogenous choice of R&D, and found that exporting activity contributes positively to plants' R&DI activity, while multinational corporate do not have a higher RDI propensity.
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Going Multinational: What are the Effects on Home-Market Performance?
Robert Jäckle,Georg Wamser +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the home market performance of German multinational enterprises (MNEs) and national firms, both before and after switching from national to multinational activities, and found that future multinationals outperform domestic firms.
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Do Out-In M&As Bring Higher TFP to Japan?: An Empirical Analysis Based on Micro-data on Japanese Manufacturing Firms
TL;DR: In this article, the performance of foreign-owned and domestically-owned firms, using micro-data on Japanese firms in the manufacturing sector for the period 1994-2000, was compared.
Productivity, Quality and Exporting Behavior Under Minimum Quality Requirements ⁄
TL;DR: The authors developed a model of international trade with two sources of heterogeneity: productivity and calibre, where productivity is defined as the ability to produce quality using few flxed inputs, while calibre is the capability to produce high quality products using few inputs.
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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.