Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/130404 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 5770
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Recent theoretical research shows that exporters are more productive than nonexporters. We show that this result holds almost trivially for the case of constant marginal cost of production, as mainly assumed in the literature, but it may not hold true if the marginal cost is not constant. Our result provides a simple explanation for recent empirical evidence showing exporters are less productive than non-exporters.
Subjects: 
export
non-constant marginal cost of production
productivity
JEL: 
F10
F12
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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