Exporting Raises Productivity in Sub-Saharan African Manufacturing Plants

By Johannes Van Biesebroeck. 2005

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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Revisiting Some Productivity Debates (2003, background): “For example, Clerides, Lach, and Tybout (1998) and Bernard and Jensen (1999) find for Colombia, Morocco, and the U.”
Financial Constraints and Innovation: Why Poor Countries Don't Catch Up (2013, neutral): “Importantly, causation may flow from export status to productivity (Grossman and Helpman (1991), World Bank (1991), World Bank (1993), Van Biesebroeck (2005), and De Loecker (2007) for theoretical arguments and empirical evidence).”
Financial factors and exporting decisions (2007, neutral): “Although this was not their main focus, two other studies have looked at indirect links between financial factors and firms' exporting decisions: Van Biesebroeck (2006), who considers whether having experienced contractual problems with clients in the past affects Sub-Saharian African firms' exporti”
Do Financial Constraints Matter for Foreign Market Entry? A Firm-Level Examination (2008, neutral): “5 A framework to account for feedback in dynamic nonlinear models was proposed by Wooldridge (2000). However, the model becomes intractable if there are a large number of predetermined variables and it does not account for other potential sources of endogeneity.”
Roads, exports and employment: Evidence from a developing country (2017, result): “3 There is also an incipient literature that looks at the impact of infrastructure across countries on economic outcomes (see, e.g., Feyrer 2009; Akerman, 2009 and Volpe Martincus et al., 2014).”
Export Dynamics and Sales at Home (2015, positive): “As mentioned in the introduction, a number of recent papers (Vannoorenberghe, 2011, Nguyen and Schaur, 2011, Soderby, 2011, Blum et al., 2011) emphasize the fact that the presence of capacity constraints or convex costs may generate substitutability between sales across destinations.”
Firm Productivity and Exports: Evidence from Ethiopian Manufacturing (2009, methodology): “Clerides et al. (1998), Bigsten et al. (2004), and Van Biesebroeck (2005) used the full-information-maximum-likelihood (FIML) estimation method where standard errors from both equations are assumed to be i.i.d normal.”
Exporting and productivity in business services : evidence from the United States (2009, background): “Van Biesebroeck (2005) also finds support for the importance of scale economies in a study of exporting among manufacturing firms in nine African countries.”
Learning-by-Exporting Effects: Are They for Real? (2015, neutral): “We take into account Arrow’s (1962) characterization of learning by limiting our sample to new plants, for which we can observe the full history of production and exports, and by using 2 Kraay (1999), Castellani (2002), Hallward-Driemeier et al. (2002), Baldwin and Gu (2003), Bigsten et al. (2004), ”
The Sensitivity of Productivity Estimates (2008, background): “For example, Clerides, Lach, and Tybout (1998) and Bernard and Jensen (1999) find for Colombia, Morocco, and the U.”