The export–growth relationship: estimating a dose-response function

Fryges, Helmut

doi:10.1080/13504850701719496

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“…More specifically, using system generalised method of moments, Baldwin and Gu (2003) and Van Biesebroeck (2005) attempt to solve the endogeneity problem and find superior labour productivity growth for exporters compared with nonexporters, suggesting learning effects of exporting activities. Using matching technique (Greenaway and Kneller, 2003; Arnold and Hussinger, 2005; Loecker, 2007; Wagner, 2007; Fryges, 2009), researchers are able to control pre‐entry firm characteristics and explore the linkage between exports and productivity more accurately. However, results presented by using matching technique are still unable to converge.…”

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Exports, Ownership and Firm Productivity: Evidence from China

Sun

Jiang

2011

World Economy

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This paper examines the linkage between exports, ownership and firm productivity. Based on a panel data set that covers over 70,000 Chinese firms from 2001 to 2005, the estimation results provide strong evidence that exports play an important role in enhancing firm productivity. Foreign ownership improves firm performance, but foreign‐owned exporters benefit less from exporting activities compared with domestic exporters. These results are robust to a variety of methods used and consideration of endogeneity issue. We also find that the productivity gain from exporting is greater for new entrants into the international market, and the benefit declines when firms become more experienced. Firms that involve more in exports are more likely to develop new product, suggesting that export‐market participation promotes innovation.

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Exports, Ownership and Firm Productivity: Evidence from China

Sun

Jiang

2011

World Economy

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“…In addition, I included the share of shipment value directly exported out of the country as a control for the degree of connection between the regional manufacturing sector and the wider (global) economy. Previous research has demonstrated a positive relationship between exporting and economic performance, although it primarily measured whether firms or plants engaged in export activity, rather than the extent to which they did so (see Bernard and Jensen 1999;Wagner 2002;Baldwin and Brown 2004;Wagner 2007;Fryges 2009). Table 6 displays the results of the regression, with regional industrial structure concentration measured as the five-firm employment-based concentration ratio.…”

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Regional Industrial Structure Concentration in the United States: Trends and Implications

Drucker¹

2011

Economic Geography

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In a seminal article, Chinitz (1961) considered the effects of industry size, structure, and economic diversification on the performance of firms and regional economies. His inquiry suggested a related but conceptually distinct issue: how does the extent to which a regional industry or industrial sector is concentrated in a small number of firms affect the local performance of that industry? The question has not been addressed systematically in empirical research other than case studies, principally because accurately measuring regional concentration requires firm‐level information. This exploratory study uses confidential plant‐level data to gauge concentration in manufacturing industries at the regional scale across the continental United States, to explore changes over time in geographic patterns of concentration, and to investigate associations between regional industrial structure concentration and changes in employment. The implications for understanding the impacts of regional industrial structure on economic development processes are discussed.

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“…(GPS) methodology recently developed by Imbens (2000) and Hirano and Imbens (2004). The GPS methodology was introduced to the literature examining the export-performance relationship by Fryges (2009) and applied by Fryges and Wagner (2008a) who estimated the relationship between exports and labour productivity growth using a sample of German manufacturing firms.…”

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Exports and Profitability: First Evidence for German Manufacturing Firms

Fryges

Wagner

2010

World Economy

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Using unique recently released nationally representative high-quality longitudinal enterprise-level data for Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It documents that the positive profitability differential of exporters compared to non-exporters is statistically significant, though rather small, when observed firm characteristics and unobserved firm-specific effects are controlled for. In contrast to nearly all empirical studies on the relationship between productivity and exports we do not find any evidence for self-selection of more profitable firms into export markets. Due to the sampling frame of the data used we cannot test the hypothesis that firms which start exporting perform better in the years after the start than their counterparts which do not start. Instead, we use a newly developed continuous treatment approach and show that exporting improves the profitability almost over the whole range of the export-sales ratio. Only firms that generate 90 per cent and more of their total sales abroad do not benefit from exporting in terms of an increased rate of profit. This means that the usually observed higher productivity of exporters is not completely absorbed by the extra costs of exporting or by higher wages paid by internationally active firms. Copyright 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

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The export–growth relationship: estimating a dose-response function

Cited by 30 publications

References 22 publications

Exports, Ownership and Firm Productivity: Evidence from China

Exports, Ownership and Firm Productivity: Evidence from China

Regional Industrial Structure Concentration in the United States: Trends and Implications

Exports and Profitability: First Evidence for German Manufacturing Firms

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