Trade Liberalisation and Plant Exit in New Zealand Manufacturing

John Gibson () and Richard Ian Harris

Working Papers from Portsmouth University - Department of Economics

Abstract: Data on New Zealand manufacturing plants are used to examine the impact of trade liberalization on plant exit. Recent theories suggest that the prospect of a declining market might cause firms to adopt stategic behaviour that causes low cost plants to exit first. This hypothesis is generally unsupported. Surviving plants were larger,lower cost,and were owned by specialised firms with few plants. Plant costs were more important than firm size for explaining the plant-closing behaviour of single-plant firms. Diversified,multiplant firms were more likely to close plants and were influenced by plant size but not plant cost.

Keywords: TRADE LIBERALIZATION; INDUSTRIAL PLANTS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F10 F19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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