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| Arijit Mukherjee |
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| ''Firm-productivity and export under non-constant marginal costs'' |
| ( 2017, Vol. 37 No.2 ) |
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| Recent theoretical research shows that exporters are more productive than non-exporters. We show that this result holds almost trivially for the case of a constant marginal cost of production, as mainly assumed in the literature, but it may not hold true if the marginal cost is not constant. Our result provides a simple explanation for recent empirical evidence showing exporters can be less productive than non-exporters. |
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| Keywords: Export; Non-constant marginal cost of production; Productivity |
JEL: F1 - Trade: General
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| Manuscript Received : Feb 17 2016 | | Manuscript Accepted : May 01 2017 |
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