Export promotion and firm entry into and survival in export markets

Daniel Lederman; Marcelo Olarreaga; Lucas Zavala

doi:10.1080/02255189.2016.1131671

Export promotion and firm entry into and survival in export markets

Daniel Lederman, Marcelo Olarreaga, Lucas Zavala

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ABSTRACT: Surveys of export promotion agencies suggest that that they tend to focus on helping firms become exporters as a means to stimulate aggregate export growth, but the existing empirical evidence has paid little attention to the role of export promotion agencies in helping entry into exporting. This paper fills this gap with a panel of exporting and nonexporting firms from seven Latin American countries during the period 2006–2010. The results suggest that export promotion encourages exports mainly by helping firms enter into and survive in export markets. The impact on the intensive margin of exporting firms is not robust.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	142-158
Number of pages	17
Journal	Canadian Journal of Development Studies
Volume	37
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/02255189.2016.1131671
State	Published - 2 Apr 2016
Externally published	Yes

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Keywords

Export promotion agencies
Latin America
exporting firms
firm dynamics
impact evaluation

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Development

UN SDGs

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Export promotion and firm entry into and survival in export markets

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