Productivity and International Trade: Firm Level Evidence from a Small Open Economy

Andersson, Martin; Lööf, Hans; Johansson, Sara

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“…Productivity is not only positively related to export participation, but to the other extensive margins of exports (the number of goods exported, and the number of export destination countries), too. Evidence is reported in studies for a number of countries, including Belgium , Colombia (Casas et al 2015), Germany (Wagner 2012c) and Sweden (Andersson et al 2008). Similar results are reported for imports to, among others, Belgium (Muuls and Pisu 2009), Germany (Wagner 2012c) and Sweden (Andersson et al 2008).…”

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confidence: 61%

A survey of empirical studies using transaction level data on exports and imports

Wagner

2015

Rev World Econ

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Section: New Insights On the Links Between Firm Characteristics And Esupporting

confidence: 61%

A survey of empirical studies using transaction level data on exports and imports

Wagner

2015

Rev World Econ

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“…This points to self-selection of more productive firms into foreign supply markets. These findings are largely congruent with related studies by Kasahara and Lapham (2008), Muûls and Pisu (2009), Eriksson et al (2009), andAndersson et al (2008). Evidence supporting the learning-by-importing hypothesis is presented by Lööf and Andersson (2010) and Hagemejer and Kolasa (2011).…”

Section: Firm Heterogeneity and Importssupporting

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Importing, Productivity and SMEs: Firm-Level Evidence from the Netherlands

Berg

2013

SSRN Journal

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Constructing a comprehensive data set covering Dutch firms over the years [2002][2003][2004][2005][2006][2007][2008] I am the first to investigate the relationship between trade status, firm size and firm-level productivity in the Netherlands, thereby focusing particularly on small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The empirical evidence can be summarized in four stylized facts. The productivity ranking by trade status of Dutch manufacturing firms in increasing order of productivity is: non-traders, importers, exporters and two-way traders. Firm size and being controlled by a company located abroad are positively associated with firm-level productivity. The results point in the direction of self-selection of more productive manufacturing firms into importing, particularly for firms that did not trade altogether prior to the import start and for build-up periods of two and three years towards the import start. I do not find evidence that firms become more productive after an import start because of learning effects. I find considerable heterogeneity in the productivity premia of trade along the firm size distribution. The results suggest that exporting is more complex than sourcing inputs internationally for small firms relative to larger firms.

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“…Importing is associated with fixed costs that are sunk costs, because the import agreement is preceded by a search process for potential foreign suppliers, inspection of goods, negotiation, contract formulation, learning about legal rules and regulations for doing business in 12 a foreign country etc. Furthermore, there are sunk costs of importing due to the learning and acquisition of customs procedures (see Kasahara and Lapham (2008), Andersson et al (2008), Castellani et al (2010) focus resources and to specialize on activities where it has particular strengths.…”

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Trading Many Goods with Many Countries: Exporters and Importers from German Manufacturing Industries

Wagner

2016

Microeconometrics of International Trade

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Productivity and International Trade: Firm Level Evidence from a Small Open Economy

Abstract: International trade, exports, imports, firm heterogeneity, productivity, import premium, export premium,

Cited by 113 publications

References 30 publications

A survey of empirical studies using transaction level data on exports and imports

A survey of empirical studies using transaction level data on exports and imports

Importing, Productivity and SMEs: Firm-Level Evidence from the Netherlands

Trading Many Goods with Many Countries: Exporters and Importers from German Manufacturing Industries

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