Exports, International Investment, and Plant Performance: Evidence from a Non-Parametric Test

Sourafel Girma (), Holger Görg () and Eric Albert Strobl ()

No 379, Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin from DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research

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. 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 non-exporters.

Keywords: exporting; FDI; multinationals; productivity; profitability; plant heterogeneity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F23 F14 D21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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