TITLE:
Export Mode Heterogenicity and Enterprise Productivity—A Test about Learning by Exporting
AUTHORS:
Xiaolong Zhang
KEYWORDS:
Enterprise Productivity, Direct Export, Indirect Export
JOURNAL NAME:
Modern Economy,
Vol.7 No.1,
January
26,
2016
ABSTRACT: Based on the theory of heterogeneous
enterprise trade and enterprise micro-data, this paper investigates the
influence of direct export and indirect export on enterprise productivity, and
explains the knowledge spillovers of the hypothesis of “learning by exporting”
from the perspective of the relationship between export and enterprise productivity.
Empirical results show that: direct export improves enterprise productivity
which increased with the rising of direct export intensity. By contrast,
indirect export exerts little influence on enterprise productivity. We conclude
that direct export is an important channel for “learning by exporting” which is
of great significance to improvement of enterprise productivity.