Exports, international investment, and plant performance: evidence from a non-parametric test

Sourafel Girma, Holger Goerg and Eric Strobl ()
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No 2004009, LIDAM Discussion Papers CORE from Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE)

Abstract: This paper compares the performance of purely domestic plants, domestic exporters and domestic multinationals. For our empirical analysis we utilise a non-parametric approach based on the principle of first order stochastic dominance. Comparing the cumulative distributions of the measures of plant performance across the three types of plants we find that the distributions for multinationals dominate that of domestic exporters and non-exporters, while we do not find clear differences in plant performance between domestic exporters and nonexporters, although the latter finding may be due to the lack of many very small plants in our data set.

Keywords: exporting; FDI; multinationals; productivity; profitability; plant heterogeneity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D21 F14 F23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004-04
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