Exports and Productivity: Comparable Evidence for 14 Countries

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Exports and Productivity: Comparable Evidence for 14 Countries

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Roberto Álvarez
Martin Andersson
Flora Bellone
Loren Brandt
Davide Castellani
Joze P. Damijan
Jose C. Fariñas
Ana M. Fernandes
Helmut Fryges
Holger Görg
David Greenaway
Stefanie Haller
Alberto Isgut
Liza Jabbour
Patricio Jaramillo
Sara Johansson
Rasmus Jørgensen
Ulrich Kaiser
Richard Kneller
Crt Kostevc
Ricardo A. López
Juan A. Máñez
Ana Martin
Patrick Musso
Mirabelle Muuls
Lionel Nesta
Leonhard Pertl
Mauro Pisu
Saso Polanec
Maria E. Rochina
Frances Ruane
Juan A. Sanchis
Stefano Schiavo
Francesco Serti
Chiara Tomasi
Johannes Van Biesebroeck
Joachim Wagner
Antonello Zanfei
Yifan Zhang

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Abstract

We use comparable micro level panel data for 14 countries and a set of identically specified empirical models to investigate the relationship between exports and productivity. Our overall results are in line with the big picture that is by now familiar from the literature: Exporters are more productive than non-exporters when observed and unobserved heterogeneity are controlled for, and these exporter productivity premia tend to increase with the share of exports in total sales; there is strong evidence in favour of self-selection of more productive firms into export markets, but nearly no evidence in favour of the learning-by-exporting hypothesis. We document that the exporter premia differ considerably across countries in identically specified empirical models. In a meta-analysis of our results we find that countries that are more open and have more effective government report higher productivity premia. However, the level of development per se does not appear to be an explanation for the observed cross-country differences.

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Paper provided by University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics. Centre for Industrial Economics in its series CIE Discussion Papers with number 2007-11.

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- on Exports and Productivity, The International Study Group, 2007. "EXPORTS AND PRODUCTIVITY - comparable evidence for 14 countries," Working Paper Series in Economics and Institutions of Innovation 110, Royal Institute of Technology, CESIS - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies. [Downloadable!]
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- The International Study Group on Exports and Productivity, 2007. "Exports and Productivity - Comparable Evidence for 14 Countries," Working Papers Central Bank of Chile 437, Central Bank of Chile. [Downloadable!]
- The International Study Group on Exports and Productivity, 2007. "Exports and productivity - comparable evidence for 14 countries," Policy Research Working Paper Series 4418, The World Bank. [Downloadable!]
- International Study Group on Exports and Productivity, 2007. "Exports and Productivity – Comparable Evidence for 14 Countries," Working Papers 0714, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Department of Economics, revised 2007. [Downloadable!]
- The International Study Group on Exports and Productivity, 2007. "Exports and Productivity ?Comparable Evidence for 14 Countries," LICOS Discussion Papers 19207, LICOS - Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, K.U.Leuven. [Downloadable!]
- Joachim Wagner, 2007. "Exports and Productivity – Comparable Evidence for 14 Countries," Working Paper Series in Economics 65, University of Lüneburg, Institute of Economics. [Downloadable!]
- The International Study Group on Exports and Productivity & Mauro Pisu, 2008. "Exports and productivity – comparable evidence for 14 countries," Research series 200802-13, National Bank of Belgium. [Downloadable!]
- International Study Group on Exports and Productivity, 2007. "Exports and productivity comparable evidence for 14 countries," ZEW Discussion Papers 07-069, ZEW - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung / Center for European Economic Research. [Downloadable!]
- Flora Bellone & Liza Jabbour & Patrick Musso & Lionel Nesta & Stefano Schiavo, 2007. "Exports and Productivity: Comparable Evidence for 14 Countries," Documents de Travail de l'OFCE 2007-36, Observatoire Francais des Conjonctures Economiques (OFCE). [Downloadable!]
- The International Study Group on Exports and Productivity, 2007. "Exports and Productivity – Comparable Evidence for 14 Countries," Caepr Working Papers 2007-028, Center for Applied Economics and Policy Research, Economics Department, Indiana University Bloomington. [Downloadable!]

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F14 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Country and Industry Studies of Trade
D21 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior

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