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Title: | Export Destination and Firm Upgrading: Evidence from Spain |
Author: | Cilekoglu, Akin A. |
Keywords: | Exportacions Indústria manufacturera Productivitat Exports Manufacturing industries Productivity |
Issue Date: | 2023 |
Publisher: | Universitat de Barcelona. Facultat d'Economia i Empresa |
Series/Report no: | [WP E-IR23/06] [WP E-AQR23/03] |
Abstract: | This paper examines the role of export destinations on firm upgrading. I exploit the real effective exchange rate devaluation in Spain during the Great Recession to identify the unusual export performance of manufacturing firms. Using directly observable measures of firm upgrading, I find that increased share of exports to low-income destinations in sales reduced productivity and upgrading efforts of firms. However, real effective exchange rate devaluation did not affect the share of exports to high-income destinations in sales as well as productivity and upgrading efforts. The results are consistent with the quality sorting hypothesis that suggests a positive relationship between firm productivity and product quality. The findings in this paper emphasize that export market destination is an important determinant in analysing the gains from exportin |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: https://www.ub.edu/irea/working_papers/2023/202306.pdf |
It is part of: | IREA – Working Papers, 2023, IR23/06 AQR – Working Papers, 2023, AQR23/03 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/199861 |
Appears in Collections: | AQR (Grup d’Anàlisi Quantitativa Regional) – Working Papers Documents de treball (Institut de Recerca en Economia Aplicada Regional i Pública (IREA)) |
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