Export and Firm Performance: Evidence on Productivity and Profitability of Italian Companies

Marco Grazzi

Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, 2012, vol. 12, issue 4, 413-444

Abstract: Empirical research in international trade has shown that exporting firms display higher productivity than their non-exporting competitors. This paper focuses on the relation between export and profitability. Our evidence on Italian exporting firms shows that exporting activity is not systematically associated to higher firm’s profitability. This is shown both by means of non-parametric methods and, with an approach that is more standard within the empirical trade literature, by regression techniques that try to identify an “export premium”. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012

Keywords: trade; export premium; systematic and occasional exporters; productivity; profitability; international competition; F1; D2; L6 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1007/s10842-011-0102-9

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