The U-Shaped Productivity Dynamics of French Exporters

Bellone, Flora; Musso, Patrick; Nesta, Lionel; Quéré, Michel

doi:10.1007/s10290-008-0164-x

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“…with the theoretical literature (Melitz, 2003), this results is consistent with Bellone et al (2008b), where a U-shaped productivity pattern is revealed for future French exporters. 19…”

Section: Accounting For Time Duration To Export Marketssupporting

confidence: 81%

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Financial Constraints and Firm Export Behavior

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The paper analyzes the link between financial constraints and firm export behavior.Our main finding is that firms enjoying better financial health are more likely to become exporters. The result contrasts with the previous empirical literature which found evidence that export participation improves firm financial health, but not that export starters display any ex-ante financial advantage. On the contrary, we find that financial constraints act as a barrier to export participation. Better access to external financial resources increases the probability to start exporting and also shortens the time before firms decide to serve foreign customers. This finding has important policy implications as it suggests that, in presence of financial markets imperfections, public intervention can be called for to help efficient but financially constrained firms to overcome the sunk entry costs into export markets and expand their activities abroad.

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“…with the theoretical literature (Melitz, 2003), this results is consistent with Bellone et al (2008b), where a U-shaped productivity pattern is revealed for future French exporters. 19…”

Section: Accounting For Time Duration To Export Marketssupporting

confidence: 81%

“…This assumption is supported by an expanding empirical literature (see, among others, Bernard and Wagner, 2001;Das et al, 2001;Tybout, 2001;Bellone et al, 2008b).…”

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Financial Constraints and Firm Export Behavior

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“…Bellone et al (2008) find that over the 1990-2002 period, 73% of French firms with at least 20 employees engaged in export. The percentage of Italian manufacturing firms involved in export activities is in line with that in other European countries.…”

Section: Institutional Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 97%

Family Firms, Corporate Governance and Export

2015

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This paper investigates the effects of family ownership on export using rich data on Italian firms. We find that family ownership increases the probability that firms export. This benefit is especially pronounced when family owners retain control rights and seek the support of external managers. The results suggest that families better internalize the long-run benefits of internationalization, but that their limited competencies attenuate this benefit in high-tech industries and in remote and unfamiliar export markets. Family firms also exhibit some tendency to enter foreign markets in a progressive way (sequential exporting) and through limited collaborations with foreign firms and intermediaries.

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“…The figure of 68.5% is also in the range of what is found by other studies for European countries. Using data from the French Manufacturing Census over the period 1990, Bellone et al (2007 find that 73% of French firms with at least 20 employees engaged in exports. For Sweden, Hansson and Lundin (2004) obtain that around 89% of manufacturing firms with more than 50 employees exported during the period 1990-1999 (data drawn from a survey conducted by Statistics Sweden).…”

Section: Exportsmentioning

confidence: 99%