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Baltagi article on domestic sales and exports with spillovers published in Journal of Econometrics

Jul 31, 2017

Determinants of Firm-level Domestic Sales, Exports, and Foreign-firm Presence with Spillovers: Evidence from China

Badi H.Baltagi, Peter H. Egger & Michaela Kesina

Journal of Econometrics, July 2017

Badi H. Baltagi

Badi H. Baltagi


This paper studies the determinants of firm-level revenues, as a measure of the performance of firms in China’s domestic and export markets. The analysis of the determinants of the aforementioned outcomes calls for a mixed linear–nonlinear econometric approach. The paper proposes specifying a system of equations which is inspired by Basmann’s work and recent theoretical work in international economics and conducts comparative static analyses regarding the role of exogenous shocks to the system to flesh out the relative importance of transmissions across outcomes.