Exports and productivity selection effects for Dutch firms

Henk Kox and Hugo Rojas-Romagosa

No 143, CPB Discussion Paper from CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis

Abstract: This study presents recently available data on the microstructure of Dutch exports and the relation between export participation and productivity at the firrm and establishment-level. We test whether recent theories of international trade with heterogeneous firms can explain the patterns in the Dutch data. This study presents recently available data on the microstructure of Dutch exports and the relation between export participation and productivity at the firrm and establishment-level. We test whether recent theories of international trade with heterogeneous firms can explain the patterns in the Dutch data. We find significant evidence that firms self-select into export participation, even after controlling for sector and firm-specific characteristics. In general, only the most productive Dutch firms participate in exports and foreign direct investment. In addition, we find evidence for the learning-by-exporting hypothesis once we control for the firm's distance to the international productivity frontier. Background document: CPB Memorandum 250

JEL-codes: D21 D24 F12 F23 L1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-03
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