After presenting a brief review of econometric models of export performance using time-series data and reporting the findings of earlier studies on export function estimation for India's engineering exports, the author discusses the data and measurement of variables and analyses the estimates of...

Plant-level data on India’s organized manufacturing enterprises reveal that about ten percent of the plants are exporting and the average export intensity is about five to six percent. By contrast, the firm-level databases on manufacturing companies in India that have commonly been used for...