Trade and management

Nicholas Bloom, Kalina Manova, John van Reenen, Stephen Teng Sun and Zhihong Yu

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Abstract: We study how management practices shape export performance using matched production-trade-management data for Chinese and American firms and a randomized control trial in India. Better-managed firms are more likely to export, sell more products to more destinations, and earn higher export revenues and profits. They export higher-quality products at higher prices and lower quality-adjusted prices. They import a wider range of inputs and inputs of higher quality and price, from more advanced countries. We rationalize these patterns with a heterogeneous-firm model in which effective management improves performance by raising production efficiency and quality capacity.

JEL-codes: J01 L81 N0 R14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 18 pages
Date: 2021-07-12
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Published in Review of Economics and Statistics, 12, July, 2021, 103(3), pp. 443 - 460. ISSN: 0034-6535

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