GEP Research Paper 04/01
Firm Level Interactions Between Exporting and Productivity: Industry Specific Evidence
David Greenaway and Zhihong Yu
This paper is forthcoming in the Review of World Economics, 2004.
Abstract
This paper investigates interactions between exporting and productivity at the firm level, using a panel of firms in the UK chemical industry. This is both highly technology intensive and the UK's largest exporting sector. We find exporters are more productive than non-exporters, but are also on average smaller. This superior productivity performance among exporters appears to be caused by both self-selection and learning-by-exporting effects. In contrast to other studies, we find learning effects are significantly positive among new entrants, weaker for more experienced exporters and negative for established exporters.
Issued in February 2004.
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