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Export Performance and Product Market Regulation

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  • Bruno Amable

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    (CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne - UP1 - Université Panthéon-Sorbonne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CEPREMAP - Centre pour la recherche économique et ses applications, IUF - Institut Universitaire de France - M.E.N.E.S.R. - Ministère de l'Éducation nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche)

  • Ivan Ledezma

    (LEDa - Université Paris-Dauphine, PSL Research University, IRD [France-Nord] - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement)

Abstract

This paper analyses the impact of product market regulation on the propensity to export at the industry level for 13 OECD countries and 13 industries over the 1977-2007 period. Recent economic policy and academic literature insists on the negative effects of product market regulation on productivity or innovation, and hence on "competitiveness", a term that we interpret as the ability to export. Similar to the conclusions of some contributions to a recent literature on competition and growth, the "common sense" is that product market regulation should be detrimantal to competitiveness. Testing through a two-step estimation the impact of upstream pressures of product market regulation on productivity and the effect of the latter on the propensity to export, this paper shows that upstream regulatory pressures have a significantly positive impact on productivity and thereby on the capability of an industry to attract resources and to sell its production in international markets.

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Date of creation: 2013
Publication status: Published in Région et Développement, L'Harmattan, 2013, pp.231-258
Handle: RePEc:hal:cesptp:hal-00973449
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Keywords: product market regulation; export performance; productivity;

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  1. Lisi, Domenico & Malo, Miguel, 2014. "Cross-Sectors Skill Intensity, Productivity and Temporary Employment," MPRA Paper 56470, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  2. Gerard Kelly & Gianni La Cava, 2014. "International Trade Costs, Global Supply Chains and Value-added Trade in Australia," RBA Research Discussion Papers rdp2014-07, Reserve Bank of Australia.

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