Exports and Productivity Selection

Effects for Dutch firms

Kox Rojas Romasgosa
Valentina Holjevac
Viktor Slavi
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Exports and Productivity Selection Effects
for Dutch firms, Kox Rojas Romasgosa
(2010.)
What is the hypothesis of the paper?
o firms self-select into export participation
o only the most productive Dutch firms
participate
o learning-by-exporting hypothesis

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Exports and Productivity Selection Effects
for Dutch firms, Kox Rojas Romasgosa
(2010.)
What is theoretic background of the
paper?
o Do exporting firms follow the international
pattern?
o Are Dutch exporting firms more productive
than non-exporting firms?
o Do they or do they not self-select into the
export market?
o Do they, or do they not experience learning-
by-exporting effects?

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Exports and Productivity Selection Effects for
Dutch firms, Kox Rojas Romasgosa (2010.)
4 ways
1. To use a latent-variable model in
combination with probit regressions
2. To extend the analysis to the Dutch services
sector
3. To include market structure
4. To distance to the technological frontier in
testing the learning-by-exporting
hypothesis

Exports and Productivity Selection Effects
for Dutch firms, Kox Rojas Romasgosa
(2010.)
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What are the sources/databases of
the quantitative data in the paper?
odata provided by Statistics Netherlands
at the firm-level (SFGO database) and
at the establishment-level (PS
database)

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Exports and Productivity Selection Effects
for Dutch firms, Kox Rojas Romasgosa
(2010.)
What are the conclusions of the
empirical analysis?
2nd
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Exports and Productivity Selection Effects
for Dutch firms, Kox Rojas Romasgosa
(2010.)
What is the connection between the
Paper and the Exam literature?
Explain it.
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Exports and Productivity Selection Effects
for Dutch firms, Kox Rojas Romasgosa
(2010.)