What's Behind the Figures? Quantifying the Cross-Country Exporter Productivity Gap

Kozo Kiyota, Toshiyuki Matsuura and Lionel Nesta

No 2017-33, GREDEG Working Papers from Groupe de REcherche en Droit, Economie, Gestion (GREDEG CNRS), Université Côte d'Azur, France

Abstract: We present a simple framework that allows us to examine the cross-country exporter productivity gap without accessing confidential firm-level data. This gap depends on the three readily available statistics: the productivity gap between two countries; the export participation rates; and export premia. This gap holds irrespective of the data generating process and independent of sunk costs of entering domestic markets. Under specific conditions, allocative efficiency may affect the exporter productivity gap. Additional assumptions on the log-normality of the productivity distribution of firms allow one to recover the export threshold and heterogeneity parameters. The empirical analysis globally validates this exercise.

Keywords: International productivity gap; Export premia; Competitiveness; Meta analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D24 F1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
Date: 2017-11
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Published in Economic Inquiry, 2019, vol. 57, no. 3. pp. 1256-1271.

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Journal Article: WHAT'S BEHIND THE FIGURES? QUANTIFYING THE CROSS‐COUNTRY EXPORTER PRODUCTIVITY GAP (2019)
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Working Paper: What's Behind the Figures? Quantifying the Cross-Country Exporter Productivity Gap (2018)
Working Paper: What's Behind the Figures? Quantifying the Cross-Country Exporter Productivity Gap (2018)
Working Paper: What's Behind the Figures? Quantifying the Cross-Country Exporter Productivity Gap (2018)
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