Exports and Firm - level Efficiency in African Manufacturing

By A. Bigsten, Paul Collier, Stefan Dercon, Marcel Fafchamps, Bernard Gauthier, J. Gunning, Jean Habarurema, A. Oduro, R. Oostendorp, Catherine A. Pattillo and 3 more. 2000

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• Skills, Investment and Exports from Manufacturing Firms in Africa (2000, background): “…of micro studies have shown that export participation normally exhibits strong state dependence, that is, that the firm’s history of exporting is important in determining contemporaneous participation [Roberts and Tybout, 1997; Clerides et al., 1998; Bernard and Jensen, 1999; Bigsten et al. 2000a].”
• Trade Liberalisation and Economic Performance: An Overview (2004, unknown): “Bigsten et al (2000) find positive stimuli from exports to productivity in Africa, and Kraay (1997) is ambiguous for China; Tybout and Westbrook (1995) and Aw, Chung and Roberts (1999), however, find little evidence for them in Latin America and Asia, respectively.”
• Trade Liberalization and Poverty: The Evidence So Far (2004, background): “Arne Bigsten et al. (2000) find a positive stimulus from exports to productivity in Africa, and Kraay (1997) is ambiguous for China, but Tybout and Westbrook (1995) and Bee Yan Aw, Sukkyun Chung, and Mark Roberts (1999) find little evidence for it in Latin America and Asia respectively.”
• Technology Strategies For Economic Development In A Fast Changing Global Economy (2002, background): “90 Bigsten et al. (2000) cite additional affirming evidence from research on China by A.”
• Business Environment and Comparative Advantage in Africa: Evidence from the Investment Climate Data (2005, unknown): “1 For estimates of financial and human capital flight see Collier et al (1999). It is also worth pointing out that while land is abundant, distortions in the regulatory and legal environments have resulted in very high prices for land in many countries.”
• Learning-by-Exporting: What We Know and What We Would Like to Know (2012, methodology): “Bigsten et al. (2000) mixed GMM with maximum likelihood and Hallward-Driemeier et al. (2002) used the instrumental-variables method. Meanwhile, different structural approaches were tested. One method was to the test for stochastic dominance of productivity distribution for exporters over the product”
• Trade Liberalisation and Poverty (2000, unknown): “Tybout (1997) and Bigsten et al. (1998) on Africa and Roberts and Tybout (1996) more generally - suggest that these factors can be very important dampeners on the general equilibrium effects discussed in this sub-section.”