Firm Level Interactions between Exporting Productivity: Industry Specific Evidence

GEP Research Paper No. 2004/01

21 Pages Posted: 4 Feb 2005

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Zhihong Yu

University of Nottingham - Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy (GEP)

David Greenaway

University of Nottingham - School of Economics

Date Written: 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.

Keywords: Productivity, learning by exporting, self-selection

JEL Classification: F14, D21, L65

Suggested Citation

Yu, Zhihong and Greenaway, David, Firm Level Interactions between Exporting Productivity: Industry Specific Evidence (2004). GEP Research Paper No. 2004/01, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=655823 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.655823

Zhihong Yu

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