Journal
WORLD ECONOMY
Volume 43, Issue 5, Pages 1452-1481Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/twec.12937
Keywords
Denmark; export diversification; intensive and extensive margins; trade collapse
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Using a highly disaggregated firm-product-destination level data from Denmark, we analyse how Danish exporters responded to the global recession in 2008-09 and the recovery that followed. We show that firms reacted mainly by adjusting their scale of export shipments and by extending their export portfolio outside of their core products and markets. More importantly, we also find that export diversification into fast-growing economies like China was associated with better export growth performance. Hence, trade reorientation beyond traditional market destinations accelerated export growth and as such constitutes an important mechanism for understanding the various determinants of firm heterogeneity.
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