The Causal Effects of Exports on Firm Size and Labor Productivity: First Evidence from a Matching Approach

By Joachim Wagner. Microeconometric Studies of Firms' Imports and Exports, 2002

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This paper uses a large plant level panel data set from Germany and a matching approach to look for causal effects of starting to export on plant performance. We find positive effects on growth of employment, labor productivity, and wages.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics

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Investments Abroad and Performance at Home: Evidence from Italian Multinationals (2004, background): “Particulary relevant to our paper are Girma, Greenaway and Kneller (2002), Girma, Kneller and Pisu (2002b), Wagner (2002) and Girma and Gorg (2002) who evaluate the effects of exporting and of acquisitions on firms’ performances and returns to scale.”
Exports and Productivity Growth: First Evidence from a Continuous Treatment Approach (2008, neutral): “looking at whether a firm starts to export or does not export; see Wagner (2002) and Girma et al. (2004) for early examples, and Wagner (2007) for a survey.”
Imports and Exports at the Level of the Firm: Evidence from Belgium (2009, neutral): “…vs. Non-traders The microeconometric-based international trade literature to date has overwhelmingly shown that exporters are more productive than non-exporters (e.g. Bernard and Jensen, 1999, for the US; Girma et al., 2005, for the UK; Wagner, 2002, for Germany; Castellani, 2002, for Italy).”
Exports and Productivity: A Survey of the Evidence from Firm Level Data (2007, methodology): “…to search for causal effects of starting or stopping to export on productivity (and other dimensions of firm performance) has been pioneered by Wagner (2002) and Girma, Greenaway and Kneller (2003, 2004), and it has been used in a growing number of empirical studies ever since (including De…”
Productivity and Exporting Status of Manufacturing Firms: Evidence from Quantile Regressions (2003, background): “Wagner (1997). “Exports and Success in German Manufacturing.”
Firm Productivity and Exports: Evidence from Ethiopian Manufacturing (2009, methodology): “Wagner (2002), Girma et al. (2004) and Arnold and Hussinger (2004) used a somewhat different approach, the matching-method from labour economics to control more precisely for differences between the ‘treatment’ and the ‘control’ groups.”
Export Behavior and Firm Productivity in German Manufacturing: A Firm-Level Analysis (2005, methodology): “To the best of our knowledge, only Wagner (2002) and Girma et al. (2004) have used similar methods so far.”
How Does Investing in Cheap Labour Countries Affect Performance at Home? France and Italy (2006, positive): “…has already been used in international economics to evaluate the effects of exporting and of acquisitions on firms' performance and returns to scale by Arnold and Javorcik (2005), Arnold and Hussinger (2005), Girma et al. (2004), Girma et al. (2003), Wagner (2002) and Girma and Görg (2004).”
Productivity Effects of Outsourcing - New evidence on the strategic importance of vertical integration decisions (2009, background): “…productivity, as exporting companies are no longer able to operate in their protected national niches but rather have to face global competition on foreign markets, forcing them to exploit further efficiency and productivity potentials (e.g. Bernard, 2004; Sourafel et al., 2004; Wagner, 2002).”
Innovation paths and the innovation performance of low-technology firms--An empirical analysis of German industry (2009, result): “As other empirical studies have demonstrated, our model shows hat the export share of the surveyed firms is positively correated with labour productivity (Bernard, 2004; Sourafel et al., 2004; agner, 2002).”