Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/144460 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
NBB Working Paper No. 248
Publisher: 
National Bank of Belgium, Brussels
Abstract: 
We use a unique longitudinal dataset that tracks the exporting behavior of Belgian manufacturing firms between 1997 and 2009. We ask how slack resources, including financial and human resource slack, influence firms’ exporting behavior. Our findings suggest that both types of slack resources have an inverted U-shaped relationship with the decision to export. This implies that higher levels of slack resources positively influence the likelihood of firms exporting, but too much slack negatively influences this likelihood. After controlling for the decision to export, we find no significant relationship between slack resources and export intensity. Nevertheless, we do find an inverted U-shaped relationship between slack resources and export diversity. Overall, this study provides new insight into how different types of slack resources influence different aspects of firms’ exporting behavior.
Subjects: 
financial resources
human resources
slack and export
JEL: 
F10
L20
O15
O16
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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