Regional export promotion offices and trade margins

Gil‐Pareja, Salvador; Llorca‐Vivero, Rafael; Martínez‐Serrano, José Antonio; Silvente, Francisco Requena

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“…8 Gil-Pareja et al (2011) also provide evidence of a positive impact of regional export promotion offices for Spain. These offices seem to be more effective on promoting export, the more distant they are from their country.…”

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Do Export Promotion Agencies Promote New Exporters?

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2014

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Inter-American Development Bank, its Board of Directors, or the countries they represent. Terms of use: Documents inThe unauthorized commercial use of Bank documents is prohibited and may be punishable under the Bank's policies and/or applicable laws.Copyright © Inter-American Development Bank. This working paper may be reproduced for any non-commercial purpose. It may also be reproduced in any academic journal indexed by the American Economic Association's EconLit, with previous consent by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), provided that the IDB is credited and that the author(s) receive no income from the publication. Abstract Do export promotion agencies (EPAs) impact the probability of non-exporting firms to export? In the last decade many countries have introduced EPAs to support their firms in order to deal with asymmetric information problems and make feasible additional gains from trade. Some recent studies have found that the support of EPAs has been effective with respect to the intensive and extensive margins of trade. Nevertheless, due to the lack of information on non-exporting firms, few of them analyze their impact on the probability of promoting new exporters. This paper evaluates the impact of the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency (Apex-Brasil) on firms' export status using a unique firmlevel dataset which covers the full manufacturing sector in Brazil. In order to identify the impact of Apex's assistance on firms' export propensity this paper relies on a procedure of matching difference-in-difference estimators. The empirical results show evidence of the program's positive impact on the probability of promoting new exporters. Also, the effect is heterogeneous according to firms' size categories and sectors. Although the evidence of positive effect is robust, the low propensity to export for both the treated and the control groups reinforces the importance of other firms' determinants (e.g. productivity) widely emphasized by trade literature. JEL Classification: D04, D22 F13, F14 Cataloging-in-Publication

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“…(see Espinoza and Crespi (2000), Bernard and Jensen (2004), Volpe Martincus (2010), Lederman et al (2010), Gil-Pareja et al (2011), Hayakawa et al (2011), Cadot et al (2012, Schminke and Van Biesebroeck (2013)). However, few of them (e.g.…”

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Do Export Promotion Agencies Promote New Exporters?

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“…10 Since the mid-nineties there has been a proliferation of these regional offices all over the world. Gil-Pareja et al (2015) found that the activity of these offices had significant effects on aggregate exports. (ISSN 2228-0588), Vol.…”

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Export Promotion Aims and Reality: A Comparison of the Iberian, Baltic and Central European Region

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2017

Baltic Journal of European Studies

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“…Research findings also indicate that export barriers tend to be more relevant when SMEs try to enter a new foreign market or attempt to introduce a new product (extensive margins) than when they experiment increasing sales of a previously exported product or try to expand their international activities in countries to which they already export (intensive margins) Gil-Pareja et al, 2014). Martincus and Carballo (2010b, p.439) explained that "…when exporting to a new destination, firms must learn, among other things, about the alternative ways and respective costs of shipping their merchandise, the tariffs/nontariff measures, and technical regulations applied on their goods, both for the home country and for competing countries; domestic consumer preferences relevant for the salability of the good to be traded; the distribution channels, in general, and potential business partners, in particular; and the main marketing strategy of incumbent firms" (p.439).…”

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“…Nevertheless, international networks seem to unburden the costs of acquisition of information on foreign markets and operations during the firm's export decision process (Gil-Pareja et al, 2014). In fact, the literature on international business networks indicates that information-sharing networks can overcome export barriers among diasporic ethnic minorities or business groups (Rauch, 2001;Anderson and Marcouiller, 2002).…”

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Three Essays on Export Promotion Services and Systems: Overcoming Export Barriers

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Regional export promotion offices and trade margins

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Do Export Promotion Agencies Promote New Exporters?

Do Export Promotion Agencies Promote New Exporters?

Export Promotion Aims and Reality: A Comparison of the Iberian, Baltic and Central European Region

Three Essays on Export Promotion Services and Systems: Overcoming Export Barriers

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