Financial reforms, product differentiation, and trade

Abdul Munasib and Devesh Roy

Economics Letters, 2014, vol. 123, issue 1, 37-41

Abstract: We hypothesize that exports of differentiated products, which entail greater upfront costs, increase more as financial reforms take place. We find strong and robust empirical support of this hypothesis with a comprehensive set of measures of reforms encompassing the banking sector, interest rates, equity and international capital markets.

Keywords: Product differentiation; Exporter–time fixed effects; Exporter–industry fixed effects; Exports (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F10 F14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2014.01.006

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