Araujo, Luis, Mion, Giordano and Ornelas, Emanuel 
ORCID: 0000-0001-8330-8745
(2012)
Institutions and export dynamics.
Centre for Economic Policy Research (DP8809).
Centre for Economic Policy Research (Great Britain), London, UK.
Abstract
We study the role of contract enforcement in shaping the dynamics of international trade at the firm level. We develop a theoretical model to describe how agents build reputations to overcome the problems created by weak enforcement of international contracts. We find that, all else equal, exporters start their activities with higher volumes and remain as exporters for a longer period in countries with better contracting institutions. However, conditional on survival, the growth rate of a firm's exports to a country decreases with the quality of the country's institutions. We test these predictions using a rich panel of Belgium exporting firms from 1995 to 2008 to every country in the world. We adopt two alternative empirical strategies. In one specification we use firm-year fixed effects to control for time-varying firm-specific characteristics.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Discussion Paper) |
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| Official URL: | http://www.cepr.org/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2012 The Authors |
| Divisions: | Geography & Environment Spatial Economics Research Centre Centre for Economic Performance |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory |
| JEL classification: | F - International Economics > F1 - Trade > F10 - General F - International Economics > F1 - Trade > F12 - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies L - Industrial Organization > L1 - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance > L14 - Transactional Relationships; Contracts and Reputation; Networks |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Jul 2012 14:07 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2024 19:07 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/44822 |
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