Exports and productivity of Russian firms: in search of causality
Författare
Summary, in English
This paper uses a census of Russian manufacturing firms to study the relationship between exports and productivity at the firm level. The period studied, 1996–2002, implies that the results are affected by the Russian financial crisis of 1998. Exporters are shown to be more productive and larger than non-exporters, seemingly an effect of more productive firms self-selecting into the export market, rather than learning effects. But learning effects are significant among new entrants. Additionally, in examining the effect of the direction of exports on productivity, the finding is that the difference in the productivity level of firms exporting to the OECD and the CIS is insignificant.
Publiceringsår
2007
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
361-385
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Economic Change and Restructuring
Volym
40
Issue
4
Länkar
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Springer
Ämne
- Economics
Nyckelord
- Exports - Productivity - Learning-by-exporting - Russia
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1574-0277