Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/333623 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 18184
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Many countries seek to promote exports by subsidizing market access, but evidence on such efforts has been mixed. We present the first randomized evaluation of a government financial-support program explicitly targeting exports, the Tasdir+ program in Tunisia. The program offered matching grants for fixed market-access costs but not variable costs. Tracking outcomes in administrative data, we find positive effects on exports on average. We find limited impacts on the number of destinations or exported products, which were stated policy targets. The finding that the fixed-cost subsidies expanded exports on the intensive margin but not the extensive margins of destinations or products stands in contrast to the predictions of several workhorse trade models.
Subjects: 
export promotion
market access
intensive margin
JEL: 
F14
O14
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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