Market size, competition, and the product mix of exporters
By: Thierry Mayer ... [et al.].
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 16959; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 16959.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "We build a theoretical model of multi-product firms that highlights how market size and geography (the market sizes of and bilateral economic distances to trading partners) affect both a firm's exported product range and its exported product mix across market destinations (the distribution of sales across products for a given product range).  We show how tougher competition in an export market induces a firm to skew its export sales towards its best performing products.  We find very strong confirmation of this competitive effect for French exporters across export market destinations.  Trade models based on exogenous markups cannot explain this strong significant link between destination market characteristics and the within-firm skewness of export sales (after controlling for bilateral trade costs).  Theoretically, this within firm change in product mix driven by the trading environment has important repercussions on firm productivity and how it responds to changes in that trading environment"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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