Export behavior and productivity growth: Evidence from Italian manufacturing firms |
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Authors: | Davide Castellani |
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Institution: | (1) LEM, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Piazza Martiri della Libert?, 33, Pisa, 56127, Italy;(2) Department of Economics, University of Trento, Trento, Italy;(3) ISTAT, Roma, Italy;; |
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Abstract: | Export Behavior and Productivity Growth: Evidence from Italian Manufacturing Firms. — This paper provides econometric evidence
supporting the hypothesis that exporting implies learning effects. Learning-by-exporting is modeled as a change, induced by
export behavior, in the stochastic process governing firms’ productivity. Empirically, this is implemented by specifying cross-section
regressions of labor productivity growth on measures of export behavior, controlling for past productivity growth and other
firms’ characteristics. Using a sample of Italian manufacturing firms, it is found that exporters do not exhibit faster productivity
growth. Nevertheless, growth in value added per worker has a positive and significant relation with firms’ export intensity.
In other words, only firms substantially involved in exporting have a significantly higher rate of productivity growth. This
result suggests that learning-by-exporting is by no means simply the outcome of the presence in the export market. |
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Keywords: | D24 F14 O31 |
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