| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w14928 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 14928 |
| Firms' Exporting Behavior under Quality Constraints | |
| Juan Carlos Hallak; Jagadeesh Sivadasan | |
| 发表日期 | 2009-04-30 |
| 出版年 | 2009 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We develop a model of international trade with export quality requirements and two dimensions of firm heterogeneity. In addition to "productivity", firms are also heterogeneous in their "caliber" -- the ability to produce quality using fewer fixed inputs. Compared to single-attribute models of firm heterogeneity emphasizing either productivity or the ability to produce quality, our model provides a more nuanced characterization of firms' exporting behavior. In particular, it explains the empirical fact that firm size is not monotonically related with export status: there are small firms that export and large firms that only operate in the domestic market. The model also delivers novel testable predictions. Conditional on size, exporters are predicted to sell products of higher quality and at higher prices, pay higher wages and use capital more intensively. These predictions, although apparently intuitive, cannot be derived from single-attribute models of firm heterogeneity as they imply no variation in export status after size is controlled for. We find strong support for the predictions of our model in manufacturing establishment datasets for India, the U.S., Chile, and Colombia. |
| 主题 | International Economics ; Trade |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w14928 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/572604 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Juan Carlos Hallak,Jagadeesh Sivadasan. Firms' Exporting Behavior under Quality Constraints. 2009. |
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