Do operations in SEZs improve a firmâ€™s productivity?  Evidence from Poland

Nazarczuk, Jarosław Michał

doi:10.18844/prosoc.v4i10.3096

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“…However, we also find that, among other differences, SEZ firms are more productive, larger, and more likely to be foreign-owned, all things found in the literature to be positively associated with exporting. Nazarczuk (2017) finds the same pattern in Polish data by looking at Kernel densities of firm characteristics of SEZ and non-SEZ firms. Turning to regression analysis where we can control for fixed country, sector, and year effects, we find that it indeed these other firm-specific factors that explain the greater export activity of SEZ firms.…”

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“…1 According to the World Bank (2008), as of 2008 there were over 3500 SEZs which amounted to 68 million jobs and over $500 billion in trade-related value added. As of 2015, the number of SEZs stood at more than 4000 (The Economist, 2015;Nazarczuk, 2017). As described in Farole (2011), an SEZ is a defined geographic area in which special incentives and/or policies apply that are not available elsewhere in the country.…”

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The Impact of Special Economic Zones on Exporting Behavior

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Mazhikeyev

2019

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Using firm level data from Africa and Asia, we estimate the impact of being in a special economic zone (SEZ) on a firm's probability of exporting, export intensity, and value of exports. At the extensive margin, we find that SEZ firms in open economies are 25% more likely to export than their non-SEZ counterparts, with a large negative effect in closed economies. At the intensive margin, we find that SEZs increase the value of exports, but only in countries with barriers to imports where the estimate increase is 3.6%. Thus, the estimated effect of introducing an SEZ can be meaningful, but is heavily contingent on the local economic environment.

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The Impact of Special Economic Zones on Exporting Behavior

Davies

Mazhikeyev

2019

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“…This openness stems from the activity of particular enterprises, which draws our attention to the firm level of analysis, affecting i.a. firm's productivity (Nazarczuk 2017), as well as to the commodity structure of exports (Maćkowiak, 2011) and the role and structure of FDI (Tobolska, 2013).…”

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The geography of openness to foreign trade in Poland: The role of special economic zones and foreign-owned entities

Nazarczuk

Umiński

2018

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series

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The aim of this paper is to present the spatial distribution of openness to foreign trade assessed at the local level (LAU 1,poviats) in Poland, between 2005 and 2012, with particular reference to its two determinants: activity of foreign-owned enterprises (FOEs) and functioning of special economic zones (SEZs). With the use of data from different sources, including the foreign trade statistics for the Polish regions, constituting a set of indicators on openness to foreign trade, we deliberate on the determinants and the character of regional openness, as well as the quality of the proxies used in order to assess their spatial distribution. Our results indicate high regional dissimilarities in terms of export activity, correlated with the broader picture of regional inequalities. The role of FOEs has been crucial in determining the spatial distribution of exports. As regards the SEZs, their sole contribution increased significantly during the time span. In the times of the world financial crisis, the export performance diversity of poviats increased temporarily but diminished afterwards.

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“…In the case of the Vietnamese SME (Le, 2018). Based on these factors, many believe that the industrial estate could encourage the industry sector by giving a higher productivity level (Santipolvut & Mali, 2015;Nazarczuk, 2017).…”

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Industrial Estate, Firms’ Productivity, and International Trade Relationship: The Case of Indonesian Manufacturing Firms

Faradila¹,

Kakinaka

2020

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Abstrak Kawasan industri diyakini dapat mendukung perkembangan sektor industri di negara berkembang melalui fasilitas infrastruktur yang lebih baik, akses ke industri pendukung serta limpahan teknologi dan informasi. Ketiga faktor tersebut diperkirakan dapat mendorong produktivitas dan aktivitas ekspor perusahaan manufaktur di dalam kawasan industri. Berbagai penelitian terdahulu masih memberikan hasil yang beragam mengenai hubungan ketiga variabel ini. Oleh karena itu, penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengidentifikasi hubungan antara kawasan industri dengan tingkat produktivitas dan kegiatan ekspor pada studi kasus perusahaan manufaktur di Indonesia. Penelitian ini memperkenalkan penggunaan dari entropy balancing, salah satu teknik matching methods dengan unit analisis level data perusahaan. Perbedaan jumlah observasi yang cukup signifikan antara perusahaan di dalam dan di luar kawasan industri memotivasi penggunaan teknik matching methods agar data penelitian menjadi seimbang. Treatment (perlakuan) dari penelitian ini adalah ketika perusahaan berada di kawasan industri. Terdapat dua variabel keluaran yakni tingkat produktivitas dan aktivitas ekspor. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa berada di Kawasan Industri mendorong tingkat produktivitas, namun gagal untuk mempromosikan kegiatan ekspor. Abstract Many believe that the industrial estate could encourage the industrial sector in developing countries due to its better infrastructure, access to supporting industries, and the market as well as technology and information spillover. These factors could lead to a higher productivity level and export activities of manufacturing firms inside the industrial estate. Some previous studies still provide a mixed result regarding the relationship between these three variables. Thus, this paper contributes to the related study by examining the relationship between an industrial estate and both productivity level and export activity in the case of Indonesian Manufacturing Firms. The paper introduces the practice of entropy balancing, one of matching methods along with firm-level data as a unit of analysis. A significant difference in the number of observations between firms inside and outside the industrial estate motivates the usage of matching methods technique, so the data become balanced. The treatment is when the firms being in the industrial estate. There are two outcomes variables, which are productivity level and export activity. The result found that being industrial estate improves firms’ productivity, yet it fails to promote export activity. JEL Classification: L23, L52, L60

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Do operations in SEZs improve a firmâ€™s productivity? Evidence from Poland

Cited by 3 publications

References 19 publications

The Impact of Special Economic Zones on Exporting Behavior

The Impact of Special Economic Zones on Exporting Behavior

The geography of openness to foreign trade in Poland: The role of special economic zones and foreign-owned entities

Industrial Estate, Firms’ Productivity, and International Trade Relationship: The Case of Indonesian Manufacturing Firms

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