Exporting and Plant-Level Efficiency Gains: It’s in the Measure

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for helpful comments and suggestions. Claudio Bravo-Ortega and Lucas Navarro kindly shared data to complement our Chilean plant-product panel. Henry Alexander Ballesteros and Oscar Fentanes provided excellent research assistance in Bogotá and Mexico City, respectively. We gratefully acknowledge research support from the UCLA Ziman Center's Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Program in Real Estate, Finance and Urban Economics. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research. NBER working papers are circulated for discussion and comment purposes. They have not been peer-reviewed or been subject to the review by the NBER Board of Directors that accompanies official NBER publications.

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“…and domestic demand shocks) to the supply function of the firm, while De Loecker (2011) makes no distinction between foreign and domestic demand shock. This is particularly important given the recent empirical evidence on the strong relationship between exporting and firm-level prices (Garcia-Marin and Voigtländer, 2019). Infact, we show that neglecting the export markets may bias productivity estimates for exporters.…”

“…Garcia-Marin and Voigtländer (2019) finds a strong relationship between exporting and reduction in firm-level prices for Chilean firms. Moreover, some papers find that firms maybe capacity constrained which is reflected by an increasing marginal cost structure(Ahn & McQuoid, 2017, Almunia et al, 2021.…”

“…The key difference between our model and De Loecker ( 2011) is that we extend their framework by integrating both the domestic and foreign markets demand conditions (i.e. foreign 1 For example, see Fernandes (2007), Khandelwal (2011), Trefler (2004), Garcia-Marin and Voigtländer (2019), Atkin et al (2017) etc. for the effect of exporting on productivity, and Halpern et al (2015), Goldberg et al (2010) etc.…”

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