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In: Local Economies and Internationalization in Italy Conference, p. 343, 2003
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Beschreibung:
Estimating on Italian data the empirical model proposed by Roberts and Tybout (1997), we find that that sunk costs of exports are quite relevant: an exporting firm at year t, which has therefore has already paid such costs, has a probability of exporting in the next year that is 70 percentage points greater than that of an otherwise identical non-exporting firm. This probability increases with labour productivity and the size of the firm, while it decreases with average wages. Industrial districts make a significant contribution in this respect, by raising, ceteris paribus, the probability of exporting and helping firms to overcome the barriers to export