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JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE ECONOMICS
Volume 42, Issue 3, Pages 569-589Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jce.2013.06.005
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Services liberalization; Manufacturing firms' export performance; Firm heterogeneity and firm level data
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This paper investigates the relationship between the reform of energy, telecommunications and transport services in India in the mid-1990s and manufacturing firms' export performance. The empirical analysis relies on exogenous indicators of regulation of Indian services sectors and detailed firm-level data from India in the 1994-2004 period. I find that the reform of upstream services sector has increased the probability of exporting and export sales shares of firms producing in downstream manufacturing industries. The results suggest that the effect of services liberalization on manufacturing firms' export performance is stronger for initially more productive firms. These empirical findings are robust to alternative econometric specifications that control for other reforms, industry, firm characteristics and that deal with potential reverse causality concerns. Journal of Comparative Economics 42 (3) (2014) 569-589. Sciences Po and CEPII (Centre d'Etudes Prospectives et d'Informations Intemationales), 28, rue des Saint-Peres, 75007 Paris, France. (C) 2013 Association for Comparative Economic Studies Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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