Export Promotion and Firm Entry and Survival in Export Markets

Surveys of export promotion agencies suggest that that they tend to focus on helping firms become exporters as a means to stimulate aggregate export growth, but the existing empirical evidence has paid little attention to the role of export promotion agencies in helping entry into exporting. This pa...

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Main Authors:	Lederman, Daniel, Olarreaga, Marcelo, Zavala, Lucas
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	Taylor and Francis 2016
Subjects:	export promotion trade facilitation export promotion agencies firm dynamics market entry
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24264

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spelling	okr-10986-242642021-05-26T09:05:19Z Export Promotion and Firm Entry and Survival in Export Markets Lederman, Daniel Olarreaga, Marcelo Zavala, Lucas export promotion trade facilitation export promotion agencies firm dynamics market entry Surveys of export promotion agencies suggest that that they tend to focus on helping firms become exporters as a means to stimulate aggregate export growth, but the existing empirical evidence has paid little attention to the role of export promotion agencies in helping entry into exporting. This paper fills this gap with a panel of exporting and non-exporting firms from seven Latin American countries during the period 2006–2010. The results suggest that export promotion encourages exports mainly by helping firms enter into and survive in export markets. The impact on the intensive margin of exporting firms is not robust. 2016-05-10T18:17:11Z 2016-05-10T18:17:11Z 2016-04-05 Journal Article Canadian Journal of Development Studies 0225-5189 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24264 en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Taylor and Francis Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research Latin America & Caribbean Latin America
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description	Surveys of export promotion agencies suggest that that they tend to focus on helping firms become exporters as a means to stimulate aggregate export growth, but the existing empirical evidence has paid little attention to the role of export promotion agencies in helping entry into exporting. This paper fills this gap with a panel of exporting and non-exporting firms from seven Latin American countries during the period 2006–2010. The results suggest that export promotion encourages exports mainly by helping firms enter into and survive in export markets. The impact on the intensive margin of exporting firms is not robust.
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author	Lederman, Daniel Olarreaga, Marcelo Zavala, Lucas
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title	Export Promotion and Firm Entry and Survival in Export Markets
title_short	Export Promotion and Firm Entry and Survival in Export Markets
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Export Promotion and Firm Entry and Survival in Export Markets

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