Productivity, Quality and Export Behaviour

Abstract

use the same dataset to investigate, respectively, the impact of firms' innovation strategies on the growth of TFP, the relationship between financial development and innovation, and the relationship between financial constraints and firm size distribution. Moreover, using older releases of our dataset, Castellani (2002) shows evidence that exporters are generally more productive than non-exporters and that productivity increases after exporting (learning-by-exporting).[ 1206 ] 4 As for trade and quality consumption see, in particular, Bils and Klenow (

Dissecting the impact of innovation on exporting in Turkey

“…Although our theoretical sketch assumes entry costs are uniform across destination markets, they may, indeed, differ according to importing countries' income level (Arkolakis 2010;Crinò and Epifani 2012). In this respect, high-income markets are tougher to penetrate due to the higher average productivity of firms and to their higher thickness.…”

“…Lower income levels are associated with lower preference for quality and a lower share of high-quality goods in consumption (Hallak 2006;Crinò and Epifani 2012). In addition, exporters vary the quality of their products across destinations 8 by using inputs of different quality levels (Manova and Zhang 2012).…”

“…As an example, Verhoogen (2008) models the firm quality upgrading choice in a framework with quality differentiation in production and different preferences for quality in the North and South. More recently, Crinò and Epifani (2012) analyse the interplay between cross-firm differences in product quality and cross-country differences in quality consumption. In both settings, the quality choice is endogenous and depends on export market characteristics and shocks (e.g.…”

Spillovers through backward linkages and the export performance of business services. Evidence from a sample of Italian firms

“…If all the uncertainties of internationalisation are removed, managers will prefer larger and richer markets. In particular, high income economies' customers are richer and more sophisticated and tend to have a higher preference for quality and are therefore more keen to pay for it (Arkolakis, 2010;Crinò & Epifani, 2012). Therefore, international expansion towards large and rich destination markets may represent an unprecedented profit opportunity especially for BS firms, due to the high heterogeneity and differentiation in BS provision.…”

The micro evolution of trade and turnover in Turkey under the global crisis

“…The evidence on more productive firms experiencing a worse performance than less productive ones in the crisis mimics the finding on Belgian firms by Behrens et al (2012) and reveals that they are responsible for part of the export intensive margin slump. More productive firms tend to export to high income markets (Crinò and Epifani, 2012), which were hit most in the crisis. As a consequence, more efficient firms may have been more affected by the inward shift of high income partners, which implies a reduction of their export sales.…”