Beyond the average effects: The distributional impacts of export promotion programs in developing countries

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Martincus, Christian Volpe; Carballo, Jeronimo
• 署名单位: Inter-American Development Bank
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-3878
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2009.02.007
• 发表日期: 2010
• 页码: 201-214
• 关键词: Export promotion; Quantile treatment effects; chile

摘要

Do all exporters benefit the same from export promotion programs? Surprisingly, no matter how obvious this question may a priori be when thinking of the effectiveness of these programs, there is virtually no empirical evidence on how they affect export performance in different parts of the distribution of export outcomes. This paper aims at filling this gap in the literature. We assess the distributional impacts of trade promotion activities performing efficient semiparametric quantile treatment effect estimation on assistance, total sales, and highly disaggregated export data for the whole population of Chilean exporters over the 2002-2006 period. We find that these activities have indeed heterogeneous effects over the distribution of export performance, along both the extensive and intensive margins. In particular, smaller firms as measured by their total exports seem to benefit more from export promotion actions. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.