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Determinants of Export Participation: Evidence from Thai Manufacturing Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

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Title Determinants of Export Participation: Evidence from Thai Manufacturing Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
 
Creator Amornkitvikai, Yot
Charoenrat, Teerawat
 
Description This paper empirically examines firm-specific factors that could affect the export participationof 65,111 Thai manufacturing SMEs. Three limited, dependent variable models (the probitmodel, the logit model and the linear probability model) were used to check the sensitivity ofthe results. With respect to the determinants that affect a firm’s export decision, a number offactors such as i) firm size, ii) productivity, iii) government assistance, iv) foreign investment(ownership), v) firm location (municipal or non-municipal area), vi) research anddevelopment, vii) firm age, and viii) workforce skill levels were found to be significantly andpositively correlated with the export participation of Thai manufacturing SMEs. Beyond acertain threshold firm size, SME export decisions were found to have a significant and positivenon-linear correlation. A significant and negative non-linear relationship between a firm’s ageand its export decision, however, was found in the aggregate. Twenty-three sub-manufacturingsectors, classified into eight sub-manufacturing SME groups, were also investigated.Empirically evidence-based policies were also suggested to facilitate improvement theinternational competitiveness of Thai manufacturing SMEs in export markets.
 
Publisher Development Economic Review (พัฒนาการเศรษฐกิจปริทรรศน์)
 
Date 2015-01-01
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://tci-thaijo.org/index.php/NER/article/view/31774
 
Source Development Economic Review (พัฒนาการเศรษฐกิจปริทรรศน์); Vol 9 No 1 (2558): NIDA Economic Review Journal; 9
1906-2540
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://tci-thaijo.org/index.php/NER/article/view/31774/27276
 
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