Firm-productivity and export under non-constant marginal costs

Mukherjee, Arijit

Abstract

Recent theoretical research shows that exporters are more productive than non- exporters. We show that this result holds almost trivially for the case of a constant marginal cost of production, as mainly assumed in the literature, but it may not hold true if the marginal cost is not constant. Our result provides a simple explanation for recent empirical evidence showing exporters can be less productive than non- exporters.

Citation

Mukherjee, A. (2017). Firm-productivity and export under non-constant marginal costs. Economics Bulletin, 37(2),

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Apr 25, 2017
• Publication Date: May 1, 2017
• Deposit Date: May 8, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: May 8, 2017
• Journal: Economics Bulletin
• Print ISSN: 1545-2921
• Electronic ISSN: 1545-2921
• Publisher: Economics Bulletin
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 37
• Issue: 2
• Keywords: Export, Non-constant marginal cost of production, Productivity
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/858868
• Publisher URL: http://www.accessecon.com/pubs/eb/default.aspx?topic=Abstract&PaperID=EB-16-00152
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• Contract Date: May 8, 2017