FIRM HETEROGENEITY AND EXPORT ACTIVITY OF EUROPEAN FIRMS: A QUANTILE ANALYSIS

  • Vicente Orts Universitat Jaume I de Castelló Castelló de la Plana (España)
  • Josep Martí Instituto de Economía Internacional Universitat Jaume I de Castelló Castelló de la Plana (España)

Palabras clave:

European Firms, Firm heterogeneity, Export intensity, Market scope, Quantile regression.

Resumen

This paper examines the extent to which firms’ characteristics are related to export activity behaviour. Using a dataset comprised of harmonized and detailed firm-level data from six European countries (Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and United Kingdom) for the period 2007-2009 (EFIGE dataset), we analyse the effects of firms’ characteristics on two different measures of export activity: export intensity and market scope. Firstly, we estimate OLS regressions to analyse this relationship. Our empirical results show that there is a positive relationship between firms’ characteristics and export activity. Secondly, quantile regressions are performed in order to observe whether there are any heterogeneous effects along the conditional distribution of the two measures of export activity. The quantile regressions reveal the existence of heterogeneous effects and nonlinearities among firms’ characteristics and both export intensity and market scope. Moreover, the quantile analysis also shows that, for some cases, the effects of firms’ characteristics on export intensity and market scope differ greatly. 

 

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Biografía del autor/a

Vicente Orts, Universitat Jaume I de Castelló Castelló de la Plana (España)

Dr. Vicente Orts is Professor in Economics at the Department of Economics and Institute of International Economics in the University Jaume I of Castellon (Spain). His research has focused on the determinants of international trade flows, relationship between foreign direct investment and trade, off shore location determinants of MNEs, economic geography, openness and growth and economic development. Recent work has appeared in the Journal of Developments Studies, Journal of International Development, Review of Development Economics, Economics of Transition, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Southern Economic Journal, International Review of Law and Economics, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Economic Modeling, Empirical Economics, Journal of Policy Modeling, Papers in Regional Science, Journal of Geographical Systems or International Review of Economics and Finance.

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Publicado
2018-07-25
Cómo citar
Orts, V., & Martí, J. (2018). FIRM HETEROGENEITY AND EXPORT ACTIVITY OF EUROPEAN FIRMS: A QUANTILE ANALYSIS. Revista de Economía Mundial, (49). https://doi.org/10.33776/rem.v0i49.3893
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Sección Especial