| Title: |
Performance is financed by the Economic and Social Research Council. |
| Authors: |
Fabrice Defever; Benedikt Heid; Mario Larch Abstract |
| Contributors: |
The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| Source: |
http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/dp1100.pdf. |
| Publication Year: |
2011 |
| Collection: |
CiteSeerX |
| Description: |
In this paper, we provide evidence that expanding firms tend to serve new markets which are geographically close and culturally related to their prior export destinations. We quantify the impact of this spatial pattern using a Chinese firm-level data set. To ensure an exogenous set of potential new destinations (25 EU countries, US and Canada) and an exogenous timing of entry, we focus on firms that benefited from the abrupt end of the textile quota restrictions in 2005. Controlling for firmproduct and destination specific effects and ac- counting for possible multiple new export destinations we show that the probability to export to a country increases by 15 to 38 percent for each prior export destination with a geographical or cultural link with this country. Keywords: export destination choice; spatial correlation; firm-level customs data; MFA/ATC quota removal |
| Document Type: |
text |
| File Description: |
application/pdf |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.233.3495; http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/dp1100.pdf |
| Availability: |
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.233.3495; http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/dp1100.pdf |
| Rights: |
Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.EE09CF5C |
| Database: |
BASE |