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Article: Factor Intensity, product switching, and productivity: Evidence from Chinese exporters

TitleFactor Intensity, product switching, and productivity: Evidence from Chinese exporters
Authors
KeywordsFactor intensity
Exporters
Multi-product firms
Productivity
Issue Date2014
Citation
Journal of International Economics, 2014, v. 92, n. 2, p. 349-362 How to Cite?
AbstractThis paper analyzes how a firm's specialization in its core products after exporting affects its factor intensity and productivity. Using Chinese manufacturing firm data for the 1998-2007 period, we find that firms become less capital-intensive but more productive after exporting, compared to non-exporters that share similar ex ante characteristics. To rationalize these findings that contrast with existing studies, we develop a variant of the model by Bernard, Redding, and Schott (2010, 2011) to consider firms producing multiple products with varying capital intensity. The model predicts that when a firm in a labor-abundant country starts exporting, it specializes in its core competencies by allocating more resources to produce more labor-intensive products. Firm ex ante productivity is associated with a smaller decline in capital intensity after exporting. A sharper post-export decline in capital intensity is associated with a larger increase in measured total factor productivity. We find firm-level evidence supporting these predictions. Using transaction-level data for the 2000-2006 period, we show that Chinese new exporters add products that are less capital-intensive than their existing products and drop those that are more capital-intensive in subsequent years. © 2013 Elsevier B.V.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/273659
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dc.contributor.authorMa, Yue-
dc.contributor.authorTang, Heiwai-
dc.contributor.authorZhang, Yifan-
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-12T09:56:17Z-
dc.date.available2019-08-12T09:56:17Z-
dc.date.issued2014-
dc.identifier.citationJournal of International Economics, 2014, v. 92, n. 2, p. 349-362-
dc.identifier.issn0022-1996-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/273659-
dc.description.abstractThis paper analyzes how a firm's specialization in its core products after exporting affects its factor intensity and productivity. Using Chinese manufacturing firm data for the 1998-2007 period, we find that firms become less capital-intensive but more productive after exporting, compared to non-exporters that share similar ex ante characteristics. To rationalize these findings that contrast with existing studies, we develop a variant of the model by Bernard, Redding, and Schott (2010, 2011) to consider firms producing multiple products with varying capital intensity. The model predicts that when a firm in a labor-abundant country starts exporting, it specializes in its core competencies by allocating more resources to produce more labor-intensive products. Firm ex ante productivity is associated with a smaller decline in capital intensity after exporting. A sharper post-export decline in capital intensity is associated with a larger increase in measured total factor productivity. We find firm-level evidence supporting these predictions. Using transaction-level data for the 2000-2006 period, we show that Chinese new exporters add products that are less capital-intensive than their existing products and drop those that are more capital-intensive in subsequent years. © 2013 Elsevier B.V.-
dc.languageeng-
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of International Economics-
dc.subjectFactor intensity-
dc.subjectExporters-
dc.subjectMulti-product firms-
dc.subjectProductivity-
dc.titleFactor Intensity, product switching, and productivity: Evidence from Chinese exporters-
dc.typeArticle-
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dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.jinteco.2013.11.003-
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