Exceptional exporter performance: cause, effect, or both?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Bernard, AB; Jensen, JB
• 署名单位: National Bureau of Economic Research; Yale University; Carnegie Mellon University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-1996
• DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1996(98)00027-0
• 发表日期: 1999
• 页码: 1-25
• 关键词: trade; PRODUCTIVITY; plant survival; export-led growth

摘要

A growing body of empirical work has documented the superior performance characteristics of exporting plants and firms relative to non-exporters. Employment: shipments, wages, productivity and capital intensity are all higher at exporters at any given moment. This paper asks, whether good firms become exporters or whether exporting improves firm performance. The evidence is quite clear on one point: good firms become exporters, both growth rates and levels of success measures are higher ex-ante for exporters. The benefits of exporting for the firm are less clear. Employment growth and the probability of survival are both higher for exporters; however, productivity and wage growth is not superior, particularly over longer horizons. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.