Financial Liberalization and the Relationship-Specificity of Exports

11 Pages Posted: 13 Jul 2013

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Fabrice Defever

University of Nottingham - School of Economics; CEP at the LSE

Jens Suedekum

Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute); Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Abstract

We investigate the causal impact of equity market liberalizations in the period 1980‐1997 on sectoral export performance across 91 countries. The increased availability of external finance has boosted trade of industries that intensively use relationship‐specific inputs, and lowered exports of industries using standardized inputs.

Keywords: financial liberalization, credit constraints, relationship‐specificity, international trade

JEL Classification: F14, F36, G20

Suggested Citation

Defever, Fabrice and Südekum, Jens, Financial Liberalization and the Relationship-Specificity of Exports. IZA Discussion Paper No. 7479, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2293296 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2293296

Fabrice Defever (Contact Author)

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Jens Südekum

Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE) ( email )

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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

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