Exporting and performance: Market entry, expansion and destination characteristics

Richard Fabling and Lynda Sanderson

No DP2010/07, Reserve Bank of New Zealand Discussion Paper Series from Reserve Bank of New Zealand

Abstract: We examine the effect of export market entry on New Zealand firm performance. Our novel contribution to the literature is the treatment of export status as an incremental process, in which firms may export to one or more markets with each of these markets providing additional potential for learning to occur. Focussing on new markets provides several benefits. Since we use matching techniques to account for self-selection, controlling for firm export histories reduces the problem of selection on unobservables (such as managerial preferences) which would confound a causal interpretation. Also, most new market entry is undertaken by incumbent exporters, providing a large number of events on which to test the learning-by-exporting (LBE) hypothesis.

JEL-codes: C23 D10 R20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40 p.
Date: 2010-08
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