Firm-productivity and export under non-constant marginal costs
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 re...
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | nottingham-425752020-05-04T18:44:10Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/42575/ Firm-productivity and export under non-constant marginal costs Mukherjee, Arijit 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. Economics Bulletin 2017-05-01 Article PeerReviewed Mukherjee, Arijit (2017) Firm-productivity and export under non-constant marginal costs. Economics Bulletin, 37 (2). pp. 911-917. ISSN 1545-2921 Export Non-constant marginal cost of production Productivity http://www.accessecon.com/pubs/eb/default.aspx?topic=Abstract&PaperID=EB-16-00152 |
| spellingShingle | Export Non-constant marginal cost of production Productivity Mukherjee, Arijit Firm-productivity and export under non-constant marginal costs |
| title | Firm-productivity and export under non-constant marginal costs |
| title_full | Firm-productivity and export under non-constant marginal costs |
| title_fullStr | Firm-productivity and export under non-constant marginal costs |
| title_full_unstemmed | Firm-productivity and export under non-constant marginal costs |
| title_short | Firm-productivity and export under non-constant marginal costs |
| title_sort | firm-productivity and export under non-constant marginal costs |
| topic | Export Non-constant marginal cost of production Productivity |
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