Why Don't Firms Export More? Product Quality and Colombian Plants

By Eileen L. Brooks. 2006

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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Zeros, Quality and Space: Trade Theory and Trade Evidence (2007, background): “Plant-level evidence for this mechanism is found by Brooks (2006), Verhoogen (2008) and Kugler and Verhoogen (2008).”
Product and Process Productivity: Implications for quality choice and conditional exporter premia (2013, background): “handicapped in export markets (e.g. World Bank, 1999; WTO, 2005; Brooks, 2006; Verhoogen, 2008; Artopoulos et al., 2011; Iacovone and Javorcik, 2012).”
Firms in international trade (2016, background): “For further evidence, using a larger (but older) data sample of Colombian firms, Brooks (2006) finds that only 10–20 percent of Colombian manufacturing firms exported in the 1980s and that the average export share was around 20 percent. firms, which we have replicated in Table 1.2.”
Verti-Zontal Differentiation in Export Markets (2013, methodology): “(2)Based on French data, Eaton, Kortum and Kramarz (2011) find that firm efficiency is not the main determinant of sales variation across markets (see also Brooks, 2006). Similarly, Kee and Krishna (2008) find that the correlation between firm-level sales of Bangladeshi firms in different destinatio”
The Quality-Complementarity Hypothesis: Theory and Evidence from Colombia (2009, background): “(See also Brooks (2006).) In future work, we plan a structural estimation of a model like the current one, and for that purpose it will be important to allow for additional dimensions of heterogeneity.”
Success and failure of African exporters (2011, unknown): “Following Brooks (2006), Table 2 shows the number of firms, firm-products, and firm-product-destinations by a given year of entry and tracks the survival of this cohort over time for each origin country.”
Productivity and the Decision to Import and Export: Theory and Evidence (2008, methodology): “Thus, using equations (5) and (7), we can determine revenue for a firm with productivity φ and export/import status d relative to a firm with the same productivity who is neither exporting nor importing: r(φ, d) = b x x b d m r(φ, 0, 0), (8)”
Multi-Product Exporters: Product Churning, Uncertainty and Export Discoveries (2010, background): “Table 7, which follows Brooks (2006) and presents export market survival rates of varieties introduced in a given year.”
A Product-Quality View of the Linder Hypothesis (2010, unknown): “1 Brooks (2006) and Verhoogen (2008) provide evidence based on U.S. imports from Colombia and firm-level exports of Mexico, respectively. Choi, Hummels, and Xiang (2006) and Hallak (2006a) provide evidence based on bilateral imports. 2 This interaction is also of interest in policy-oriented research”
Corporate Social Responsibility, Product Differentiation Strategy and Export Performance (2010, background): “Brooks (2006), for example, explains the lower share of the export sector in smaller lower income countries with an econometric model that assumes wealthier customers in higher income developed nations to consume higher quality products.”
Firms' Exporting Behavior under Quality Constraints (2009, unknown): “…it, understanding what makes firms export should help enhance the effectiveness of such policies.1 More generally, identifying determinants of firms’ exporting behavior is critical for answering the question of what determines trade patterns across countries, the field’s core question in the last…”
Estimating Cross-Country Differences in Product Quality* (2008, unknown): “Cross-country and time-series variation in product quality has also been linked to firms’ export success (Brooks 2003, Verhoogen 2004), countries’ skill premia (Verhoogen 2004), and quantitative import restrictions (Aw and Roberts 1986, Feenstra 1988).”