Geography and the Determinants of Firm Exports in Indonesia

Green tangible investment strategies and export performance: A firm-level investigation

“…Recent papers have sought to shed light on the sources of firm heterogeneity, and they have attempted to identify the drivers of different modes of internationalization. These studies show that international firms are more innovative (Atkeson and Burnstein, 2010;Burnstein and Melitz, 2013;Bustos, 2011;Costantini and Melitz, 2008;Ederington and McCalman, 2008), have superior organizational and managerial practices (Bloom and van Reenen, 2007), and benefit from better market access (Lileeva and Trefler, 2010), product diversification (Bernard et al, 2011) or agglomeration economies (Antonietti and Cainelli, 2011a;Rodrìguez-Pose et al, 2013).…”

The Impact of Spatial Externalities: Skills, Education and Plant Productivity

“…It is thus important to take account of the characteristics of the employees in a study such as the present one. The idea to include both internal (firm-specific or microeconomic) and external (regional or macroeconomic) determinants to explain firm performance is applied in BALDWIN et al (2008) and ERIKSSON and LINDGREN (2009), concerning labour productivity, and RODRÍGUEZ-POSE et al (2013), concerning export propensity and intensity, among others. Both JACOBS's (1969) andMAR's (GLAESER et al, 1992) views of externalities concern the effects of knowledge spillovers.…”

Trends and Determinants of the Geographical Distribution of Economic Activities: Evidence From Indonesian Manufacturing

“…We set distance thresholds of 50 km between the capital cities, in line with Duranton and Overman (2005); we also set distance thresholds of 400 km between the capital provinces, in line with Rodríguez-Pose et al (2013). Thus, we define EGS as follows: (7) where:…”