Export Experience, Product Differentiation and Firm Survival in Export Markets

Inui, Tomoyuki; Ito, Keiko; Miyakawa, Daisuke

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“…Methodologically, earlier studies on duration applied continuous time models rather than discrete‐time models. Starting with Hess and Person (), discrete‐time models have been a norm in recent export duration studies (see Görg et al , ; Besedeš, ; Görg and Spaliara, ; Fu and Wu, ; Fugazza and McLaren, ; Córcoles et al , ; Gullstrand and Persson, ; Inui et al , ; Chacha and Edwards, ; Cui and Liu, ; Lemessa et al , ; Peterson et al , ; Türkcan and Saygili, ; Goya and Zahler, ; Zhu et al , ). Using the original data by Besedeš and Prusa (), Hess and Person () conclude that discrete‐time models are more efficient than continuous‐time models due to three reasons.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Explaining Export Duration in Kenya

Majune

Moyi

Gathiaka

2020

South African J Economics

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This study establishes the hazard rate of exports from Kenya and identifies factors that explain the duration of exports using a discrete‐time random effects logit regression model. A difference‐in‐differences estimator is used to assess the effects of AGOA. Export data between Kenya and 176 partners over 21 years (1995–2016) is used. We find that first‐year survival rate is 39%. The median duration of Kenya’s exports is 1 year. AGOA enhances export survival, especially for apparels. COMESA also increases export survival but EAC has a dampening effect, even in SSA region. Differentiated products unlike capital‐intensive products improve export survival.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Explaining Export Duration in Kenya

Majune

Moyi

Gathiaka

2020

South African J Economics

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“…Export behaviour is expected to have a positive effect on firm survival as exporting firms tend to have higher productivity and profitability to help them survive (Helpman, 2006;Salomon and Shaver,2005;Inui, et. al., 2017).…”

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Does support from government help firms survive? Evidence on financial and political assistance in China, 1998–2007

Harris

2018

Applied Economics

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The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Abstract:Using the NBS dataset over the period 1998-2007, this paper examines the dual roles of financial assistance and strong political links on firm survival in China by applying a semiparametric duration model. We find that generally either financial assistance or strong politica l links had a positive effect on the likelihood of firm survival. Furthermore, if firms received both types of support from government, their survival rate was around 2 times as high compared to only receiving a single support. The likelihood of survival depended on the amount of assistance a firm received. We also find firm ownership impacts on its surviva l pattern. Lastly, China joining the WTO coincided with (cet. par.) higher firm failure, especially with regard to state-owned firms; however, this period also saw the authorities targeting political and financial help on the 'better' firms (especially SOE's) with characteristics likely to increase their chance of survival. 6 We generally observe 'exit' when the firm's unique company code disappears from the dataset. But, for some firms, merger or acquisition results in the creation of a new company code, not the adoption of the code of the acquiring firm. Using company name, address and zip code, we have re-established the pre-existing code to mergers and acquisitions where a new code had been wrongly created. 7 We think it is important not to, a priori, drop what may seem to be outliers without direct evidence . 8 TFP was taken from Harris and Li (2016),which uses the same methodology as that used in Ding et. al. (2016).

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“…Albornoz et al (2016) proxy experience with firm export survival time, number of export markets, number of previous incursions and export exposure. Inui et al (2017) define experience as number of years of firm export spells up to the current year.…”

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Previous experience, experimentation and export survival: Evidence from firm‐product‐destination level data

Esteve‐Pérez

2021

World Economy

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This paper explores the role of a firm's product and/or market export experience and experimentation for survival of new product‐destination export spells, using firm‐level Spanish customs data over the period 1997–2015. Previous research has documented a positive impact of experience on export survival. This paper contributes to the extant literature by unravelling the distinct effect on export survival of ongoing accumulated experience (i.e., from the start of a product‐destination export spell), previous product and/or destination‐market experience and experimentation (repetition of product‐destination relationships). We find that 60% of new product‐country export spells end during their first year. Thereafter, the hazard rate remarkably falls with their elapsed duration (i.e., age). Exporting a new product endures a higher risk than entering a new market. Besides, experimentation (repeated product‐destination combinations) and previous experience (especially at product rather than at destination level) significantly lower the exit hazard. The results are consistent with previous studies that suggest that sunk costs to enter markets are relatively high, while experimentation and learning are more relevant at product level.

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Export Experience, Product Differentiation and Firm Survival in Export Markets

Cited by 25 publications

References 27 publications

Explaining Export Duration in Kenya

Explaining Export Duration in Kenya

Does support from government help firms survive? Evidence on financial and political assistance in China, 1998–2007

Previous experience, experimentation and export survival: Evidence from firm‐product‐destination level data

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