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The Export-Growth Relationship: Estimating a Dose-Response Function
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posted on 2023-05-17, 18:38 authored by Fryges, HRThe relationship between individual firms’ export behaviour and firm performance has been studied extensively in the economic literature. However, most studies from the field of economics only distinguish between exporting and nonexporting companies, using the firms’ export status as a binary treatment variable and comparing the performance of exporting and nonexporting firms. This article introduces the newly developed generalized propensity score (GPS) methodology to the literature of individual firms’ export behaviour. Instead of a binary treatment variable, the GPS method allows for continuous treatment, that is, different levels of the firms’ export activities. Based on the GPS methodology, a dose-response function is estimated, depicting the relationship between the firms’ export-sales ratio and their subsequent sales growth rate as a measure of firm performance.
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Publication title
Applied Economics LettersVolume
16Issue
18Pagination
1855-1859ISSN
1350-4851Department/School
TSBEPublisher
Routledge Taylor & FrancisPlace of publication
UKRights statement
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