Learning-by-Exporting: What We Know and What We Would Like to Know

Silva, Armando; Afonso, Óscar; Africano, Ana Paula

doi:10.1080/08853908.2012.682022

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“…7 This performance ordering of …rms is in line with other empirical work using this workhorse model (Muuls and Pisu, 2009;Serti and Tomasi, 2009;Altomonte and Békés, 2009;Silva et al,2012;Castellini et al, 2010) with the exception of…”

Section: Do Internationalized Firms Perform Better?supporting

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Costs of Trade and Self-selection into Exporting and Importing: The Case of Turkish Manufacturing Firms

2015

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This paper focuses on self-selection into trade by exporting and importing firms, and on the presence of differential variable and sunk costs between exporters and importers across different categories of imports. The authors use a rich and recent dataset for Turkish manufacturing firms for the period 2003-2010. This allows them to provide a comprehensive analysis of firm heterogeneity and the connection between firm-level performance and international trade. They provide evidence on the remarkable heterogeneity across firms where only-importers (importers) perform better than only-exporters (exporters). The authors detect a self-selection effect for both importing and exporting firms with a stronger effect for importers. The results suggest that the nature of sunk costs varies between importing and exporting activities with importers facing higher sunk costs. Tariffs represent a potentially important source of variation in the variable costs of trading. When taking the tariffs faced by firms into account, the authors find that the self-selection effect associated with sunk costs is still present but greatly reduced with a smaller reduction for importers compared to exporters.

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Costs of Trade and Self-selection into Exporting and Importing: The Case of Turkish Manufacturing Firms

2015

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“…Further, ISGEP (2008) provides an international comparison across 14 countries. 2 Silva et al (2010) provide a detailed survey of the learning by exporting literature. Further, Martins and Yang (2009) provide a meta-analysis of 33 empirical studies.…”

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The Export-Productivity Link in Brazilian Manufacturing Firms

Cirera

Lederman

Máñez

et al. 2015

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Abstract This paper explores the link between exports and total factor productivity (TFP) for Brazilian manufacturing firms over the period [2000][2001][2002][2003][2004][2005][2006][2007][2008], both under the assumption of an exogenous or an endogenous law of motion for productivity. The authors first obtain TFP estimates under each alternative assumption following Wooldridge (On estimating firm-level production functions using proxy variables to control for unobservables, 2009) GMM procedure. Second, using stochastic dominance techniques they analyse whether the ex-ante most productive firms are those that start exporting (self-selection hypothesis). Finally, the authors test whether exporting boosts firms TFP growth (learning-by-exporting hypothesis) using matching techniques, to control for the possibility that selection into exports may not be a random process. Their results confirm the self-selection hypothesis and show that starting to export yields firms an extra TFP growth that emerges since the first year exporting but lasts only from this year to the next. Further, this extra TFP growth is much higher under the assumption of an endogenous law of motion for productivity, which reinforces the importance of accounting for firm export status to study the evolution of productivity. Terms of use: Documents in

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“…Learning can be moderated by a number of factors, including export market coverage, types of export markets served, and other firm and industry characteristics (Silva et al 2012a). However, despite acknowledging industry heterogeneity, most of the studies recalled do not explore in depth the potential significant difference in absorptive capacity among firms in different industries.…”

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Trade and Productivity in a Transition Economy: the Role of Industry and Export Destination

Reggiani

Shevtsova

2018

J Ind Compet Trade

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This paper focuses on the joint role of industry technology intensity and export market characteristics in the analysis of export-related productivity gains. Using a unique database of Ukrainian manufacturing firms in 2000-06, we classify all manufacturing sectors according to their technology intensity and estimate destination-specific learning by exporting effects separately for firms operating in high and low technology sectors. New exporters in high technology sectors enjoy robust long-term productivity growth premia when targeting advanced export markets, consistent with learning through exports. Export entrants in low technology sectors, instead, enjoy mostly short-term productivity improvements regardless of the export destination. Our findings suggest that the systematic distinction between the technology intensity of various industries is a relevant dimension for empirical studies on destination-specific learning by exporting.

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Learning-by-Exporting: What We Know and What We Would Like to Know

Cited by 81 publications

References 66 publications

Costs of Trade and Self-selection into Exporting and Importing: The Case of Turkish Manufacturing Firms

Costs of Trade and Self-selection into Exporting and Importing: The Case of Turkish Manufacturing Firms

The Export-Productivity Link in Brazilian Manufacturing Firms

Trade and Productivity in a Transition Economy: the Role of Industry and Export Destination

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