Multi-Product Exporters: Product Churning, Uncertainty and Export Discoveries

By L. Iacovone, B. Javorcik. 2010

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Recent research on international trade focuses on firm-product-level heterogeneity and the role of uncertainty in shaping international trade. This article contributes to the literature by examining product-level dynamics within firms in the context of Mexican trade integration under NAFTA. The data show intense product churning within firms and confirm the existence of within-firm product heterogeneity. The data indicate that new exporters enter foreign markets with a small number of varieties, most of which were previously sold at home, and with a small export small volume. The data also suggest that export discoveries are relatively rare and are imitated within a short period of time.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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Exporting and Plant-Level Efficiency Gains: It’s in the Measure (2019, unknown): “…and Verhoogen (2012) andEslava et al. (2013) use the Colombian firm-level data from the Annual Manufacturing Survey (Encuesta Anual Manufacturera); Iacovone and Javorcik (2010) and Eckel et al. (2015) use data from the Mexican Monthly Industrial Survey (Encuesta Industrial Mensual) and from the…”
Multi-Product Firms and Product Quality (2017, result): “This assumption is motivated by evidence in the prior literature of a positive correlation between product quality, input prices and output prices (Verhoogen 2008, Kugler and Verhoogen 2008, Manova and Zhang 2009, Crozet et al. 2009, Iacovone and Javorcik 2010).”
Product Mix and Firm Productivity Responses to Trade Competition (2020, background): “Baldwin and Gu (2009), Bernard et al. (2011), and Iacovone and Javorcik (2010) analyze similar reallocations over time for Canada, Mexico, and the United States following CUSFTA/NAFTA liberalization.”
Did Trade Liberalization Help Women? the Case of Mexico in the 1990s (2010, unknown): “Tariff data were available originally at the eight-digit harmonized system (HS) classification and was matched to the Mexican CMAP class classification as explained in Iacovone and Javorcik (2010).”
Exporter Dynamics Database (2012, unknown): “47 For example Bernard, Jensen, Redding, and Schott (2007) and Lawless (2010) examine bilateral U.”
Export upgrading and growth: the prerequisite of domestic embeddedness (2013, background): “…produced by foreign-invested firms is typically higher than those previously exported by domestic firms in the host country (Wang and Wei, 2010; Iacovone and Javorcik, 2010).1 Second, the presence of multinationals may facilitate the product upgrading of domestic firms through various…”
Input-trade liberalization, export prices and quality upgrading (2015, unknown): “Recent firm-level empirical studies however find the opposite correlation: firms that export are bigger and charge higher prices (e.g., Hallak and Sivadasan -forthcoming-, Kugler and Verhoogen 2012, Crozet, Head and Mayer 2012, Manova and Zhang 2012, Iacovone and Javorcik 2010).”
Success and failure of African exporters (2011, unknown): “5 of Iacovone and Javorcik (2010) who showed the importance of churning at the firm level in response to exogenous opportunities provided by increased globalization.”