Exports, Restructuring and Industry Productivity Growth

Falvey, Rod; Greenaway, David; Yu, Zhihong; Gullstrand, Joakim

doi:10.2139/ssrn.764345

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“…However, lack of comparable information means it is not possible to provide any evidence on whether productivity growth was mostly due to intra‐firm improvements or external restructuring. The only study (not included in Table 7) that started with a similar approach to ours was Falvey et al (2004), for Swedish manufacturing (1980–94). They used the Haltiwanger‐type approach to decompose TFP growth by industries but did not separate out exporters.…”

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“…They discover that reallocations due to increased exporting positively impact on aggregate productivity growth, which is then counteracted by reallocations attributed to changes in domestic shipments. Falvey et al (2004), again using Swedish manufacturing data, find that exporting has a sizeable effect on industry productivity growth, in terms of increasing market share for higher productivity exporters.…”

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Evaluating the Contribution of Exporting to UK Productivity Growth: Some Microeconomic Evidence

Harris

2008

World Economy

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This study assesses the contribution of exporting activities to aggregate productivity growth in the UK for all market-based sectors for the period 1996-2004, using a weighted FAME dataset. Based on decompositions of productivity growth, our findings suggest that, overall, exporting firms experience faster productivity growth than non-exporting firms and therefore contribute more to national productivity growth. In addition, aggregate productivity for exporters benefits from a large contribution from 'continuing' firms improving their productivity, as well as exporters that have been taken-over/merged or started-up as new firms. In contrast, most of the TFP improvement for non-exporters is attributable to lower productivity firms exiting, rather than from internal improvements or the productivity-enhancing impact of new firms. Copyright 2008 The Authors.

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Evaluating the Contribution of Exporting to UK Productivity Growth: Some Microeconomic Evidence

Harris

2008

World Economy

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“…6 6 Note further that Falvey et al (2004), using data for Sweden, found a clear causal link between exporting and industry productivity which is independent of the link between exporting and firm productivity. …”

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Exports and Productivity: A Survey of the Evidence from Firm‐level Data

2007

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While the role of exports in promoting growth in general, and productivity in particular, has been investigated empirically using aggregate data for countries and industries for a long time, only recently have comprehensive longitudinal data at the firm level been used to look at the extent and causes of productivity differentials between exporters and their counterparts which sell on the domestic market only. This paper surveys the empirical strategies applied, and the results produced, in 54 microeconometric studies with data from 34 countries that were published between 1995 and 2006. Details aside, exporters are found to be more productive than non-exporters, and the more productive firms self-select into export markets, while exporting does not necessarily improve productivity. Copyright 2007 The Author Journal compilation 2007 Blackwell Publishing Ltd .

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“…1 Furthermore, understanding the determinants of exports, and in turn specialization, is key to explain growth and economic performance in general. For developing countries, exports are a major source of foreign exchange and a channel to new technologies and knowledge spillovers (Lall 2000;Santos-Paulino 2002;and Falvey et al 2004). Other studies show that there is a strong positive connection between exports and growth, and that the composition of exports is crucial in determining the strength of growth (Rodrik 2006;Greenaway et al 1999).…”

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