| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w19033 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 19033 |
| Exporting and Plant-Level Efficiency Gains: It's in the Measure | |
| Alvaro Garcia Marin; Nico Voigtländer | |
| 发表日期 | 2013-05-09 |
| 出版年 | 2013 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | While there is strong evidence for productivity-driven selection into exporting, the empirical literature has struggled to identify export-related efficiency gains within plants. Previous research typically derived revenue productivity (TFPR), which is downward biased if more efficient producers charge lower prices. Using a census panel of Chilean manufacturing plants, we compute plant-product level marginal cost as an efficiency measure that is not affected by output prices. For export entrant products, we find efficiency gains of 15-25%. Because markups remain relatively stable after export entry, most of these gains are passed on to customers in the form of lower prices, and are thus not reflected by TFPR. These results are confirmed when we use tariffs to predict export entry. We also document very similar results in Colombian and Mexican manufacturing plants. In addition, we find sizeable efficiency gains for tariff-induced export expansions of existing exporters. Only one quarter of these gains are reflected by TFPR, due to a partial rise in markups. Our results thus imply that within-plant gains from trade are substantially larger than previously documented. Evidence suggests that a complementarity between exporting and investment in technology is an important driver behind these gains. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Households and Firms ; International Economics ; Trade ; Industrial Organization ; Firm Behavior ; Industry Studies |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w19033 |
| 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/576707 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Alvaro Garcia Marin,Nico Voigtländer. Exporting and Plant-Level Efficiency Gains: It's in the Measure. 2013. |
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