Export, Productivity Pattern, and Firm Size Distribution

Churen Sun and Tao Zhang

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: We show in the Chinese Annual Survey of Industrial Firms that size distributions of non-exporters and exporters have different shapes, which can only be explained by assuming that their productivity distributions have different shapes. Empirical estimations verify this assumption. This paper also analyzes the relationship between firms' size and productivity distributions and shows that: 1) productivity and size distributions change accordingly, and 2) productivity is deterministic for size distribution.

Keywords: Heterogeneous firm; Pareto distribution; Production size; Productivity heterogeneity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D21 D24 F12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-01-03
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