Geography and Exporting Behavior : Evidence from India

• Tác giả: Megha Mukim
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 609.54 Historical, geographic, persons treatment
• Thông tin xuất bản: 2012
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 308325
• Chủ đề: 1. ACCESSIBILITY; 2. AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES; 3. BARRIERS TO ENTRY; 4. BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT; 5. BUYER

Tóm tắt

This paper examines locational factors that increase the odds of a firm's entry into export markets and affect the intensity of its participation. It differentiates between two different sources of spillovers: clustering of general economic activity and that of export-oriented activity. It also focuses on the effect of the business environment and that of institutions at the spatial unit of districts in India. The study disentangles the within-industry effect from the within-firm effect. A simple logit specification is used to model the probability of entry. The analysis is based on a panel of manufacturing firms in India, which allows for the introduction of firm-specific controls and a battery of fixed effects. The findings suggest that exporter-specific clustering, general economic agglomeration, and institutional factors affect firms' export behavior.