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Exceptional Exporter Performance: Cause, Effect, or Both? / Andrew B. Bernard, J. Bradford Jensen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bernard, Andrew B.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w6272.
- NBER working paper series no. w6272
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Exceptional Exporter Performance
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1997.
- Summary:
- A growing body of empirical work has documented the superior performance characteristics" of exporting plants and firms relative to non-exporters. Employment, shipments and capital intensity are all higher at exporters at any given moment. This paper asks whether good" firms become exporters or whether exporting improves firm performance. The evidence is quite" clear on one point: good firms become exporters, both growth rates and levels of success measures" are higher ex-ante for exporters. The benefits of exporting for the firm are less clear. Employment" growth and the probability of survival are both higher for exporters; however growth is not superior, particularly over longer horizons.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- November 1997.
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