IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/eec/wpaper/2303.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

ICT effects on firm’s export decisions: evidence for Colombian manufacturing

Author

Listed:
  • Andrés Mauricio Gomez-Sanchez

    (Universidad del Cauca, Colombia.)

  • Juan A. Máñez Castillejo

    (Universidad de Valencia and ERICES, Valencia, España.)

  • Juan Alberto Sanchis-Llopis

    (Universidad de Valencia and ERICES, Valencia, España.)

Abstract

The objective of this work is to explore the impact of ICT (using several indicators) on the firm’s export decision for Colombian manufacturing. To study this decision, we specify a model that accounts for sunk costs, firm previous experience in exporting and the impact of importing on exporting, and we estimate a dynamic (panel data) discrete model for the decision to export. To undertake this study, we merge three data bases at the firm level for Colombia: the Annual Manufacturing Survey (EAM), the Technological Development and Innovation Survey (EDIT) and the Annual ICT Manufacturing Survey (EAM-TIC), for the period 2013-2016. The results we obtain, show that ICT has a significant and positive impact on firm’s propensity to export, regardless the ICT category examined. Our work also confirms the existence of persistence on firm’s exports, self-selection, and depreciation of export experience. This evidence contributes to the scarce empirical literature on this topic for emerging economies, such as Colombia.

Suggested Citation

  • Andrés Mauricio Gomez-Sanchez & Juan A. Máñez Castillejo & Juan Alberto Sanchis-Llopis, 2023. "ICT effects on firm’s export decisions: evidence for Colombian manufacturing," Working Papers 2303, Department of Applied Economics II, Universidad de Valencia.
    • Handle: RePEc:eec:wpaper:2303
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://repecsrv.uv.es/paper/RePEc/pdf/eec_2303.pdf
    File Function: First version, 2303
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ICT; Exports; Self-Selection; Panel Data; Emerging Economies.;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • L16 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Industrial Organization and Macroeconomics; Macroeconomic Industrial Structure
    • L96 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities - - - Telecommunications
    • F14 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Empirical Studies of Trade
    • C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
    • D22 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eec:wpaper:2303. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Vicente Esteve (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/dsvales.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.