Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/3134 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
DIW Discussion Papers No. 365
Publisher: 
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Abstract: 
This paper examines whether exporting activity matters for firm?s price cost margins. The recent literature on exporting and productivity shows that exporters on average are more efficient than nonexporters. If that is the case we may also expect them to have different mark-ups. We investigate this issue using company level data for UK manufacturing industries. The measurement of mark-ups follows the recent approach presented by Roeger (1995). Our results show that, on average, exporters have higher mark-ups than non-exporters. We also distinguish sectors into homogeneous and differentiated goods producing. This distinction shows that we only find higher mark-ups for exporters in differentiated goods sectors, not in homogeneous sectors.
Subjects: 
exports
mark-ups
price cost margins
productivity
JEL: 
L1
L6
F1
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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