Firm Size and Export Performance: Some Empirical Evidence
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Firm Size and Export Performance: Some Empirical Evidence, by Owen Gabbitas and Paul Gretton was released on 23 April 2003. The paper uses firm-level data to provide information about the relationship between firm size, domestic sales and export performance for a sample of Australian manufacturing firms. Also see:
CONTENTS
Preliminaries
Cover, Copyright, Contents, Acknowledgements, Abbreviations and explanations
Summary
Key points, Summary
1 Introduction
2 Trends in exports
2.1 Global trends
2.2 Australian trends
2.3 Exporting by Australian firms
2.4 Summing up
3 Selected empirical studies
3.1 Main findings
3.2 Possible non-linear relationships between firm size and exporting
3.3 Summing up
4 Size in the domestic market, firm size and export performance
4.1 Export participation
4.2 Extent of export involvement
4.3 The relative importance of firm size
4.4 Summing up
A Firm-level data source
A.1 Business Longitudinal Survey
B Variables from the Business Longitudinal Survey
B.1 Variables used in regression analyses
B.2 Additional analysis
C Model outline and detailed results
C.1 Binary choice analysis
C.2 Panel data analysis
Technical annex 1 Binary choice (logistic) regressions
Technical Annex 2 Panel data regressions
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