High-end variety exporters defying gravity: Micro facts and aggregate implications

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Martin, Julien; Mayneris, Florian
• 署名单位: University of Quebec; University of Quebec Montreal; Universite Catholique Louvain
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-1996
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2015.01.008
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 55-71
• 关键词: Vertical differentiation; gravity; distance; volatility

摘要

We develop a new methodology to identify high-end variety exporters in French firm-level data. We find that they do not export to more countries, but they export to more distant destinations than low-end ones. We also show that in contrast to low-end exporters, distance has almost no effect on high-end variety export(er)s. Because of this lower sensitivity to distance at the micro-level, specializing in the production of high-end varieties has implications for the geography of aggregate exports. Specializing in high-end varieties allows for a greater geographic diversification of aggregate exports - in particular when demand arises from both neighboring and distant countries. It also makes a country better able to benefit from growth in remote destinations. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.