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Exporters' characteristics and the margins of trade

Economics and Business Letters

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Title Exporters' characteristics and the margins of trade
 
Creator Minondo, Asier; Deusto Business School
Requena, Francisco
 
Description This paper investigates the influence of exporting countries' characteristics on the number of exporters (extensive margin) and average exports value per firm (intensive margin). For that purpose, we use a new database compiled by the OECD and Eurostat in year 2005, which allows the calculation of trade margins in bilateral relationships involving a large number of exporting and importing countries. We find that there is almost a one to one relationship between exporters' GDP and the number of firms that participate in export markets. This proportionality remains when we decompose GDP into an employment component and a labor productivity component. Our results also show that exporters' labor productivity is positively linked with the intensive margin of exports.
 
Publisher Oviedo University Press
 
Contributor We acknowledge financial support from Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (ECO2010-21643/ECON
project ECO 2011-27619/ECON) and Generalitat Valenciana (project Prometeo/2009/098).
 
Date 2012-07-02
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.unioviedo.es/reunido/index.php/EBL/article/view/9454
 
Source Economics and Business Letters; Vol 1, No 2 (2012): June; 10-15
Economics and Business Letters; Vol 1, No 2 (2012): June; 10-15
2254-4380
 
Language eng
 
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