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dc.contributor.authorKrüger, Jensen
dc.date.accessioned2009-03-13-
dc.date.accessioned2009-08-06T10:03:27Z-
dc.date.available2009-08-06T10:03:27Z-
dc.date.issued2009-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/27026-
dc.description.abstractThe literature on firm heterogeneity in international trade posits that only the most productive firms become exporters (Melitz 2003). However, empirical findings suggest that also firms that are not highly productive export. This paper investigates empirically how firms organize their export trade. If selling directly, sunk costs of foreign market entry are arguably very high, so only productive firms can achieve this (Schroeder et al. 2003). Low productivity firms, by contrast, may prefer to export through trading companies, which involves lower sunk costs. Using a firm level panel data set of Ghanaian firms we investigate the relationship between firm productivity and the use of export intermediaries. Our estimation results take simultaneity problems into account and reveal that indeed low productivity firms tend to export through intermediaries.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aKiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) |cKielen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aKiel Advanced Studies Working Papers |x449en
dc.subject.jelD21en
dc.subject.jelF14en
dc.subject.jelL22en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordExport intermediationen
dc.subject.keywordfirm productivityen
dc.subject.stwAußenhandelswirtschaften
dc.subject.stwUnternehmenen
dc.subject.stwProduktivitäten
dc.subject.stwExporthandelen
dc.subject.stwInternationale Markteintrittsstrategieen
dc.subject.stwGhanaen
dc.titleHow do firms organize trade?: Evidence from Ghana-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn593795288en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen
dc.identifier.repecRePEc:zbw:ifwasw:449en

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