GEP Research Paper 03/46
Exports, international investment, and plant performance: Evidence from a non-parametric test
Sourafel Girma, Holger Görg and Eric Strobl
This paper was subsequently published in Economics Letters, Vol. 83, No. 3., 2004, pp.317-324.
Abstract
This paper compares the performance of purely domestic plants, domestic exporters and domestic multinationals. For our empirical analysis we utilise a non-parametric approach based on the principle of first order stochastic dominance. We find that the distributions for multinationals dominate that of domestic exporters and non-exporters, while we do not find clear differences in plant performance between domestic exporters and non-exporters.
Issued in November 2003.
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