Spatial exporters

Defever, Fabrice; Heid, Benedikt; Larch, Mario

doi:10.1016/j.jinteco.2014.11.006

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“…With the latter, firms can search for new trade partners using their network of clients and suppliers, which allows them to expand their trade relations with more distant countries over time . These results are also consistent with trade theories that emphasize the role played by learning or matching through trade experience in a foreign market (Albornoz, Calvo Pardo, Corcos, & Ornelas, ; Defever, Heid, & Larch, ; Nguyen, ; Timoshenko, ). Both trade models with learning into export markets and the model of trade networks by Chaney () predict that trade experience can generate a geographical spread of imports and exports.…”

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Trade networks and colonial trade spillovers

Berthou

Ehrhart

2017

Rev International Economics

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This paper provides new empirical evidence regarding the formation of international trade networks. Established trade relations may open the gate to new trade opportunities, as they allow meeting new trade partners over time. We test this prediction and its implications for aggregate trade patterns by using the experience of ancient trade linkages between former colonies and their former colonizers (colonial trade linkages). We first show, using aggregate trade data, that former colonies have more trade with former colonizer's neighbors (colonial trade spillovers). We then show that the past export and import experience of former colonies with the colonizer have an impact on the propensity to trade similar products with third countries. In particular, the trade spillover effect is negatively related to geographical distance between third countries and the colonizer, and positively affected by their degree of economic integration.

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Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 89%

Trade networks and colonial trade spillovers

Berthou

Ehrhart

2017

Rev International Economics

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“…In particular, since 2010, there has been an increase in empirical studies of product-level heterogeneity and trade (e.g., Berthou and Fontagné 2013;Iacovone and Javorcik 2010); for example, Iacovone and Javorcik (2010) used data from Mexico, Freund and Pierola (2010) from Peru, Bernard et al (2010) from the United States, Albornoz et al (2012) from Argentina, Görg et al (2012) from Hungary, Bernard et al (2013) from Belgium, Damijan et al (2011) from Slovenia, andDefever et al (2011) from China. Such studies also pose challenges to researchers due to the need for very detailed firm-level export data broken down at different export product levels.…”

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The Role of Product-Level Dynamics in Export Growth and Productivity: Evidence from Estonia

Masso

Vahter

2014

Emerging Markets Finance and Trade

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Recent empirical studies of international trade have stressed that firm-level decisions about the number of export products or markets are an important margin of adjustment in response to globalization and changes in economic conditions. We investigate how decisions about the export product mix are associated with aggregate export dynamics and productivity of firms. We use detailed data on product and export market levels for the full population of Estonia's firms. Decomposition analysis of trade flows shows that both the relative importance of firms' beginning to export products and the role of product-level churning (firms' adding and dropping of products) in total Estonian export growth increases significantly after accession to the European Union in 2004. We show that concentration on core competence products has a rather different association with productivity of firms in different-size groups. Large firms with a large number of different types of export products gain, on average, in terms of productivity from concentrating their export sales on their core export products. There is no such general regularity in the case of small firms.

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“…Similarly, Defever et al (2014) used Chinese firm-level data and discovered that the elimination of the Multi Fibre Arrangement (MFA) caused Chinese firms to start exporting to non-MFA destinations that border MFA countries, concluding that export extensive margins have a spatial pattern. Koenig (2009), Cassey andSchmeiser (2013), and Fernandes and Tang (2014) examined learning through observing other exporters for France, Russia, and China respectively, and found important "peer effects."…”

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Market Knowledge: Evidence from Importers

Erbahar

2017

SSRN Journal

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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 channels that import experience might have on export entry. By identifying import experience using instrumental variables, and shutting down productivity channels with firm-year fixed effects, I find that having a supplier in the destination country raises the probability of exporting to that country by 5.5 percentage points on average, revealing a "market knowledge" phenomenon. The paper's main contribution to the literature is finding for the first time that firms' country-specific import experience increases the likelihood of exporting to that country. Digging further to explore heterogeneous effects, I find that this effect increases with the destination country's size, proximity, language similarity, and the size of its Turkish community. Moreover, the strength of the firm's relationship with its supplier as proxied by several variables such as the share of imported products that are differentiated increases the probability of export market entry. Terms of use: Documents inJEL codes: F1, F14, F61, L20

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Spatial exporters

Cited by 54 publications

References 33 publications

Trade networks and colonial trade spillovers

Trade networks and colonial trade spillovers

The Role of Product-Level Dynamics in Export Growth and Productivity: Evidence from Estonia

Market Knowledge: Evidence from Importers

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