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CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS-REVUE CANADIENNE D ECONOMIQUE
Volume 38, Issue 4, Pages 1384-1400Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.0008-4085.2005.00329.x
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Recent empirical evidence documents the superior characteristics of exporters relative to non-exporters. Three explanations for this phenomenon have been proposed: self-selection; learning-by-exporting; and conscious self-selection. We test these three hypotheses using plant-level data from Chile. We find that plants that enter international markets show superior initial performance compared with non-exporters, consistent with self-selection; we observe increases in productivity after plants begin to export, which is consistent with learning-by-exporting. We also find strong evidence supporting the idea that self-selection is a conscious process by which plants increase productivity with the purpose of becoming exporters.
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