Foreign Ownership and the Export and Import Propensities of Developing-Country Firms

Dominik Boddin, Horst Raff and Natalia Trofimenko

VfS Annual Conference 2017 (Vienna): Alternative Structures for Money and Banking from Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association

Abstract: This paper uses micro-data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys to investigate how foreign ownership affects the likelihood of manufacturers in developing countries to export and/or import both directly and in- directly. Applying propensity score matching to control for differences across firms, we find that foreign ownership raises the propensity of a firm to export by over 17 and the propensity to import by more than 13 percentage points.

JEL-codes: F12 F14 F23 O19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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Journal Article: Foreign ownership and the export and import propensities of developing-country firms (2017)
Working Paper: Foreign ownership and the export and import propensities of developing-country firms (2015)
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