Do exports generate higher productivity? Evidence from Slovenia

Loecker, Jan De

doi:10.1016/j.jinteco.2007.03.003

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“…Recently, for individual middle-income countries several empirical studies demonstrate that firms that internationalize learn and improve productivity (De Loecker, 2007;Aw et al, 2008Aw et al, , 2011Damijan et al, 2009). We contribute to this agenda by studying the impact of various internationalization modes on innovation using a broader dataset that consists of firms from 10 transition countries.…”

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The Effects of Internationalization on Innovation: Firm-Level Evidence for Transition Economies

Boermans

Roelfsema

2014

Open Econ Rev

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It is well-documented that international enterprises are more productive. Only few studies have explored the effect of internationalization on productivity and innovation at the firm-level. Using propensity score matching we analyze the causal effects of internationalization on innovation in 10 transition economies. We distinguish between three types of internationalization: exporting, FDI, and international outsourcing. We find that internationalization causes higher levels of innovation. More specifically, we show that (i) exporting results in more R&D, higher sales from product innovation, and an increase in the number of international patents (ii) outward FDI increases R&D and international patents (iii) international outsourcing leads to higher sales from product innovation. The paper provides empirical support to the theoretical literature on heterogeneous firms in international trade that argues that middle income countries gain from trade liberalization through increases in firm productivity and innovative capabilities.

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The Effects of Internationalization on Innovation: Firm-Level Evidence for Transition Economies

Boermans

Roelfsema

2014

Open Econ Rev

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“…Reduced market access abroad for exporters offers a possible explanation for the loss in productivity that we observe for highly productive firms during protection. Also, according to the "learning-by-exporting" literature, reduced market access abroad would lower learning resulting from exporting and negatively impact firm-level productivity (De Loecker, 2007;Van Biesebroeck, 2005) An additional interpretation for the AD heterogeneity could be related to the high correlation that exists between exports and imports at the firm level. Exporting firms tend to 5 source a relatively higher share of their intermediates from abroad.…”

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Heterogeneous responses of firms to trade protection

Konings

Vandenbussche

2008

Journal of International Economics

115

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Heterogeneous Responses of Firms to Trade ProtectionThis paper uses EU firm-level panel data to estimate the effect of Antidumping (AD) protection on the productivity of EU domestic firms in import-competing industries. We find that firms with relatively low initial productivity -laggard firms -have productivity gains during AD protection, while firms with high initial productivity -frontier firms -experience productivity losses. While the productivity of the average firm is moderately improved during AD protection, productivity remains below that of firms never involved in AD cases, thus questioning the desirability of protection. Our empirical results are consistent with recent theoretical work supporting the view that trade policy can have a differential effect on firms depending on their initial productivity.JEL Classification: 030, C2, F13 and L41

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“…firm heterogeneity). A small number of papers have identified some characteristics such as age of the firm (Delgado et al, 2002;Fernandes and Isgut, 2007), export intensity (Kraay, 1999;Castellani and Zanfei, 2007;Damijan et al, 2007;Girmaa et al, 2004), industry characteristics such as exposure to foreign firms (Greenaway and Kneller, 2003) and destination of exports (DeLoecker, 2007). Another strand of the literature argues that learning-by-exporting is conditional on the development level of destination markets.…”

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Learning by Exporting: Do Firm Characteristics Matter? Evidence from Argentinian Panel Data

Albornoz

2007

SSRN Journal

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We identify characteristics that affect firms' ability to learn from their export activities. Our analysis employs propensity score matching (PSM) techniques and GMM regressions on a panel of Argentinian firms spanning 1992-2001. Characteristics we find important to learning-by-exporting are: foreign ownership, intensive use of imported inputs, a skilled workforce and small firm size. Finally, firms that are new to exporting seem to experience particularly high productivity gains but begin enjoying them before entering into the export market. * We thank Jens Arnold for supplying the original Stata code used to implement the Propensity Score Matching Technique. We also thank Valeria Arza, Rob Elliott and Gabriel Yoguel for their helpful comments. Any shortcomings are our own.

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Do exports generate higher productivity? Evidence from Slovenia

Cited by 874 publications

References 42 publications

The Effects of Internationalization on Innovation: Firm-Level Evidence for Transition Economies

The Effects of Internationalization on Innovation: Firm-Level Evidence for Transition Economies

Heterogeneous responses of firms to trade protection

Learning by Exporting: Do Firm Characteristics Matter? Evidence from Argentinian Panel Data

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