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The impact of exporting on firm productivity: a meta-analysis of the learning-by-exporting hypothesis
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Abstract We conduct a meta-analysis of more than 30 papers that study the causal relationship between exporting and firm productivity. Our main result, robust to different specifications and to different weights for each observation, indicates that the impact of exporting upon productivity is higher for deve... view more
We conduct a meta-analysis of more than 30 papers that study the causal relationship between exporting and firm productivity. Our main result, robust to different specifications and to different weights for each observation, indicates that the impact of exporting upon productivity is higher for developing than developed economies. We also find that the export effect tends to be higher (1) in the first year that firms start exporting (compared to later years); and (2) when the sample used in the paper is not restricted to matched firms. Moreover, we find no evidence of publication bias.... view less
Classification
Political Economy
Free Keywords
Productivity; Globalisation; Publication bias; F15; F20
Document language
English
Publication Year
2009
Page/Pages
p. 431-445
Journal
Review of World Economics, 145 (2009) 3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10290-009-0021-6
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)