Exporting and firm performance: Market entry, investment and expansion

Moving on from New Zealand’s productivity paradox

“…However, these results appear to reflect in large part foreign owners acquiring already high-performing firms (Fabling and Sanderson, 2014). Likewise, while New Zealand's internationally connected firms have relatively high productivity levels and are larger than domestically focused firms (Fabling et al, 2008), larger, more capital-intensive and more productive firms tend to opt into exporting, and this explains most of the productivity difference between exporters and non-exporters (Fabling and Sanderson, 2013).…”

A Rough Guide to New Zealand's Longitudinal Business Database (2nd edition)

“…Between 1988 and 2015, there have been 49 minor and 4 major revisions to the Harmonised System classifications. Fabling & Sanderson (2013) use Fortran code developed and documented by Abowd et al (2002) alongside detailed HS concordances provided by 47 While group allocation is a feasible solution for cross-sectional comparisons, it is not appropriate for many potential longitudinal analyses, as longitudinal group aggregation (aggregating together all firms which ever share group membership) results in the majority of exports being associated with a small number of "super" groups. 48 A full list of statistical unit codes is available through www.customs.govt.nz.…”

Product innovation by supplying domestic and foreign markets

“…Starting from the abundant research on the impact of a firm's export status or export intensity on productivity (see, for instance, Wagner, 2007;Crespi et al, 2008;Serti and Tomasi, 2008;Fryges and Wagner, 2008;Park et al, 2010;Fabling and Sanderson, 2013), several scholars have also demonstrated the effect of a firm's international activities on its ability to introduce product innovations. Recent contributions include Baldwin and Gu (2004), Salomon and Shaver (2005), Liu and Buck (2007), Fafchamps et al (2008), Criscuolo et al (2010), Lileeva and Trefler (2010), Bustos (2011), and Bratti and Felice (2012), among others.…”