Year: 2003
Type: preprint
Abstract: This paper examines whether exporting activity matters for ffirm's price cost margins. The recent literature on exporting and productivity shows that exporters on average are more efficient than nonexporters. If that is the case we may also expect them to have different mark-ups. We investigate this issue using company level data for UK manufacturing industries. The measurement of mark-ups follows the recent approach presented by Roeger (1995). Our results show that, on average, exporters have higher mark-ups than non-exporters. We also distinguish sectors into homogeneous and differentiated goods producing. This distinction shows that we only find higher mark-ups for exporters in differentiated goods sectors, not in homogeneous sectors
Authors: Holger Görg, Frédèric Warzynski
Language: English
Topic: Global trade and economics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Award: G6907109897
OpenAlex ID: W2126403296