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Exports and productivity of Russian firms: in search of causality

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Summary, in English

This paper uses a census of Russian manufacturing firms to study the relationship between exports and productivity at the firm level. The period studied, 1996–2002, implies that the results are affected by the Russian financial crisis of 1998. Exporters are shown to be more productive and larger than non-exporters, seemingly an effect of more productive firms self-selecting into the export market, rather than learning effects. But learning effects are significant among new entrants. Additionally, in examining the effect of the direction of exports on productivity, the finding is that the difference in the productivity level of firms exporting to the OECD and the CIS is insignificant.

Publishing year

2007

Language

English

Pages

361-385

Publication/Series

Economic Change and Restructuring

Volume

40

Issue

4

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • Economics

Keywords

  • Exports - Productivity - Learning-by-exporting - Russia

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1574-0277