Learning-by-exporting: an assessment of the Portuguese case

• Autor(a) principal: Pereira, Ângela Gonçalves Dos Santos
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10773/15286
• topic: Economia; Exportações - Portugal; Inovação

This investigation work examines the causality link between exporting and firms’ performance. Using a panel within the time span 1997 – 2007, it is done an assessment to the Portuguese manufacturing industry on the existence of the learning by exporting against the existence of self-selection in terms of international trade. This study provides therefore evidence of coexistence of these two streams, rather than supporting the existence of only one of them individually by excluding the other. This investigation thus suggests that firms can freely choose to enter in the exporting market, increasing their productivity levels ex-ante the exporting process in order to be able to properly compete on it, while subsequently learn from the exporting process through the knowledge stocks that it gives them access to which leads them to an improvement of their performance. This way it is pointed out the need be identify a theoretical framework that aim at a superior level than the existing one.