Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/70237 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
cege Discussion Papers No. 136
Publisher: 
University of Göttingen, Center for European, Governance and Economic Development Research (cege), Göttingen
Abstract: 
This paper investigates the link between exporting and importing activities and firm performance using a rich dataset on Egyptian and Moroccan firms. We test the export premium, self-selection and learning-by-exporting hypotheses using a number of firm characteristics. Our analysis also includes importing activities as a source of learning and considers their effects on productivity changes. A differences-in-differences matching estimator is used to address the endogeneity bias of target variables. The main results for Egyptian firms echo those reported for other countries using firm-level data, namely exporters are larger and more productive than non-exporters. In contrast, Moroccan exporters and non-exporters are strikingly similar. More specifically, no evidence is found of pre or post-entry differences in labour productivity for Moroccan firms.
Subjects: 
firms
new-new trade theory
productivity
exporting
panel data
Egypt
Morocco
JEL: 
F10
F35
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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