Export Mix Changes and Firm Performance: Evidence from Chile

Roberto Alvarez and Andres Zahler
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Eduardo Levy Yeyati

No 6514, IDB Publications (Working Papers) from Inter-American Development Bank

Abstract: In this paper we analyze changes in the export mix of Chilean firms, looking particularly at differences between large firms and SMEs. To do that, we use detailed information of exported products by firms during the period 1995-2005. Our econometric results, which look at the impact of export product churning on firm performance, are heterogeneous by type of change inexport mix and by firm size. In general, export mix changes are associated with improvements on productivity, although our results suggest that this positive effect is only for SMEs. In terms of employment and sales, we find that export product churning has positive effect on large firms and lower - and in some case negative - on SMEs. It seems that changes in export mix are more important for firm growth in large firms, but not in terms of productivity. In contrast, SMEs can have a higher potential for productivity improvement through export product churning but this does not translate necessarily in significant increase in sales and employment.

Keywords: Large firms; Export mix; Product mix; Firm performance; Small and Medium Size Enterprises (SMEs); New products (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D22 F14 L25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-04
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