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Imported Inputs and Egyptian Exports: Exploring the Links

  • Dades identificatives

    Identificador:  PC:3972
    Autors:  Parra, María Dolores
    Resum:
    This paper is the first to explore the links between exporting and importing activities of Egyptian firms using panel data over the period from 2003 to 2007. The main aim is twofold. Firstly, the authors report regression results indicating that firms that both export and import are the most productive, followed by importing-, exporting-only firms and nontraders. Secondly, the authors estimate the determinants of the extensive and intensive margins of exports and imports using dynamic panel-Probit and panel-Tobit models in combination with the method proposed by Hesketh and Skrondal (2013) to tackle the initial conditions problem. Their results show that both activities present a high degree of hysteresis, which is higher for imports than for exports pointing to the existence of sunk costs in both activities. Moreover, past productivity does affect the extensive margin of imports, but not of exports and the initial condition status is also only relevant for the import side. Similar outcomes are obtained for the intensive margin of trade.
  • Altres:

    Tipus de document: info:eu-repo/semantics/other
    DOI: 10.7910/DVN/TFYZ4T
    Publicacions relacionades: Parra, M. D., & Martínez-Zarzoso, I. (2015). Imported inputs and egyptian exports: Exploring the links. Economics, 9(1), 20150038. https://doi.org/10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2015-38
    Grup de recerca: GRIT
    Departament: Economia
    Autor: Parra, María Dolores
    Data alta repositori: 2015-05-28
    Any de publicació de la dataset: 2015
    Matèria: Social Sciences
    Identificador del investigador: 0000-0001-5642-8477
    DOI de la publicació relacionada: 10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2015-38
    Idioma: en
    Publicat per (editora): Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV)
    Drets d'accés: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
    Resum: This paper is the first to explore the links between exporting and importing activities of Egyptian firms using panel data over the period from 2003 to 2007. The main aim is twofold. Firstly, the authors report regression results indicating that firms that both export and import are the most productive, followed by importing-, exporting-only firms and nontraders. Secondly, the authors estimate the determinants of the extensive and intensive margins of exports and imports using dynamic panel-Probit and panel-Tobit models in combination with the method proposed by Hesketh and Skrondal (2013) to tackle the initial conditions problem. Their results show that both activities present a high degree of hysteresis, which is higher for imports than for exports pointing to the existence of sunk costs in both activities. Moreover, past productivity does affect the extensive margin of imports, but not of exports and the initial condition status is also only relevant for the import side. Similar outcomes are obtained for the intensive margin of trade.
  • Paraules clau:

    Firm level data
    Egypt
    Internationalization
    Imports
    Exports
    Intermediates
    Social Sciences
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