Multiproduct Firms, Export Product Scope, and Trade Liberalization: The Role of Managerial Efficiency
Date:
14 April 2014Category:
Competitiveness, Education, Training, and Human Capital, Industry and Manufacturing, TradeType:
Discussion PapersTags:
Competitiveness, Human Capital, industry and manufacturingPrint Article:
This paper provides a theoretical and empirical analysis of the effects of one-sided tariff cuts on firms' export product scope. The theoretical model explicitly incorporates cost of management in addition to the commonly used production cost. The analysis predicts that the home country's tariff cut, a home firm's export product scope expands (shrinks) if the firm's management cost is low (high). These predictions are supported by our empirical analysis based on data on Chinese firms from 2000 to 2006.
