Foreign Ownership and the Export and Import Propensities of Developing-Country Firms

This paper uses micro-data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys to investigate how foreign ownership affects the likelihood of manufacturers in developing countries to export and/or import both directly and in- directly. Applying propensity score matching to control for differences across firms, we find that foreign ownership raises the propensity of a firm to export by over 17 and the propensity to import by more than 13 percentage points.

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Year of publication:	2017
Authors:	Boddin, Dominik ; Raff, Horst ; Trofimenko, Natalia
Publisher:	Kiel, Hamburg : ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft

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Series:	Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2017: Alternative Geld- und Finanzarchitekturen - Session: International Trade and Trade Reforms V ; F15-V2
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Conference Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/168178 [Handle] RePEc:zbw:vfsc17:168178 [RePEc]
Classification:	F12 - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies ; F14 - Country and Industry Studies of Trade ; F23 - Multinational Firms; International Business ; O19 - International Linkages to Development; Role of International Organizations
Source:	EconStor

Persistent link: https://ebvufind01.dmz1.zbw.eu/10011712691