Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/89566 
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Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
LEM Working Paper Series No. 2009/16
Publisher: 
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Pisa
Abstract: 
Using firm level data this study investigates the relation between export activity and firm's profitability. The paper shows that, contrary to other performance indicators such as productivity, exporting activity is not systematically associated to higher firm's profitability. This is shown both by means of non-parametric methods and, with an approach that is more standard within the empirical trade literature, by regression techniques that try to identify an 'export premium'.
Subjects: 
export premium
productivity
profitability
JEL: 
F1
D2
L6
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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