TY - JOUR
AU - Petit,, Jean
AB - Abstract This paper explores empirically how export-competing performance is related to domestic and foreign market structure. Recent theoretical propositions that link elements of international and industrial economics are successfully tested on a vast sample of micro data. By means of nonparametric statistics as well as of regression analysis, firm size, industrial concentration, product differentiation, location, information, and foreign subsidiaries are shown to be important elements in explaining Belgian exports behavior. Among the suggestions for economic policy that emerge, it appears that fostering large domestic sales of a firm and domestic concentration or discouraging direct investment abroad will put a brake on export rates. * Earlier versions of this paper were discussed at the Seminar of the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Publique (ENSAE), Paris, 1978, and at the European Meeting of the Econometric Society, Athens, 1979. The authors are indebted to R. Caves, D. Baron, G. Basevi, P. de Grauwe, E. de Souza, Ch. Huveneers, J. Morales, and an anonymous referee for their helpful comments. They also thank the “Office Belge du Commerce Extérieur,” which gathered a large part of the data. This content is only available as a PDF. © 1980 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College
TI - Exports in an Imperfect Competition Framework: An Analysis of 1,446 Exporters
JF - The Quarterly Journal of Economics
DO - 10.2307/1884582
DA - 1980-05-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/exports-in-an-imperfect-competition-framework-an-analysis-of-1-446-ik0PPn6fAr
SP - 507
VL - 94
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -