FIRMS’ EXPORT PERFORMANCE: A FRACTIONAL ECONOMETRIC APPROACH

Why Some Firms Export

This paper presents a dynamic model of the export decision by a profit-maximizing firm. Using a panel of U.S. manufacturing plants, we test for the role of plant characteristics, spillovers from neighboring exporters, entry costs and government export promotion expenditures. Entry and exit in the export market by U.S. plants is substantial, past exporters are apt to reenter, and plants are like...

Firms export decisions

analyzing factors affecting export performance of manufacturing firms

this study aims to explore potential mutually beneficial malaysia-middle east partnership through seeking for factors affecting firm’s performance. a survey was conducted to analyze malaysian firms that have ventured into nations surrounding the persian gulf. both large-sized firms and smes are pursuing business opportunities in the region. the data was collected using highly structured survey ...

Export Subsidies in a Heterogeneous Firms Framework

We evaluate the impact of firm-specific export subsidies on exports in Colombia. Using a two-stage Heckman selection procedure, we obtain firm-specific predicted subsidy amounts that can be explained by the characteristics that determine the firms’ eligibility for the government support and its amount. Drawing on the accounts of the discretionary allocation of subsidies in developing countries,...

The Environmental Performance of Polluting Plants: A Spatial Econometric Approach

This paper uses plant-level data from EPA and Census databases to incorporate spatial components in models of the environmental performance (compliance and emissions) of manufacturing plants. The spatial approaches include creating explanatory variables based on information related to the plant’s location and the location of nearby plants, testing for spatial autocorrelation in environmental pe...