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(2013), "2012 Awards for Excellence", Indian Growth and Development Review, Vol. 6 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/igdr.2013.35006aaa.002
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:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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2012 Awards for Excellence
Article Type: 2012 Awards for Excellence From: Indian Growth and Development Review, Volume 6, Issue 1
The following article was selected for this year's Outstanding Paper Award for Indian Growth and Development Review
“Self-selection vs learning: evidence from Indian exporting firms”
Priya RanjanDepartment of Economics, University of California, Irvine, California, USA
Jibonayan RaychaudhuriDepartment of Economics, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study whether exporting firms outperform non-exporting firms along a number of performance characteristics. It also examines whether the differences in performance characteristics are due to the self-selection of better firms into exporting or because the firms that start exporting for some unknown reason experience productivity growth.
Design/methodology/approach – The dataset comprised a panel of Indian manufacturing firms for a period of 17 years from 1990 to 2006.
Findings – Exporters were found to systematically outperform non-exporters over a number of characteristics. Also, evidence was found of “self-selection”, that is, firms that are more productive enter the export market. There was some evidence of learning, that is exporting firms experience an increase in productivity.
Originality/value – This is the first paper to look at the issue of self-selection vs learning for exporting firms using a dataset from India.
Keyword Exports, India, Manufacturing industry, Productivity rate
www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/17538251111124981
This article originally appeared in Volume 4 Number 1, 2011, pp. 22-37 Indian Growth and Development Review