Regional export promotion offices and trade margins

Salvador Gil-Pareja, Rafael Llorca-Vivero (), José Martínez-Serrano () and Francisco Requena-Silvente ()
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Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv), 2015, vol. 151, issue 1, 145-167

Abstract: This paper investigates the channels through which Spanish regional export promotion offices (REPOs) abroad affect bilateral exports. Using transaction data per product over the period 1995–2011, we decompose the total impact of REPOs on exports value into three margins: number of products, number of firm transactions per product and average value per transaction. We find that the export-enhancing effect of REPOs takes place mainly through an increase in the first two margins. Moreover, we also find that the pro-trade effect of REPOs is larger for more differentiated products, for non-EU destinations and is increasing with the age of the offices. Copyright Kiel Institute 2015

Keywords: Information barriers; Export promotion institutions; Extensive and intensive margins; Spanish regions; Gravity equation; F14; R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/s10290-014-0199-0

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