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Title: Institutions and Export Dynamics

Author(s): Luis Araujo, Giordano Mion and Emanuel Ornelas

Publication Date: January 2012

Keyword(s): Contract enforcement;, Contracting institutions, Firm dynamics and Firm exports

Programme Area(s): International Trade and Regional Economics

Abstract: We study the role of contract enforcement in shaping the dynamics of international trade at the firm level. We develop a theoretical model to describe how agents build reputations to overcome the problems created by weak enforcement of international contracts. We find that, all else equal, exporters start their activities with higher volumes and remain as exporters for a longer period in countries with better contracting institutions. However, conditional on survival, the growth rate of a firm's exports to a country decreases with the quality of the country's institutions. We test these predictions using a rich panel of Belgium exporting firms from 1995 to 2008 to every country in the world. We adopt two alternative empirical strategies. In one specification we use firm-year fixed effects to control for time-varying firm-specific characteristics. Alternatively, we model selection more explicitly with a two-step Heckman procedure using

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Araujo, L, Mion, G and Ornelas, E. 2012. 'Institutions and Export Dynamics'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=8809