Description: Geography and Exporting Behavior : Evidence from India

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Geography and Exporting Behavior : Evidence from India

This paper examines locational factors that increase the odds of a firm's entry into export markets and affect the intensity of its participation. It differentiates between two different sources of spillovers: clustering of general economic ac...

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Main Author:	Mukim, Megha
Language:	English
Published:	2012
Subjects:	ACCESSIBILITY AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES BARRIERS TO ENTRY BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT BUYER BUYERS COMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE COMPUTERS CONGESTION CONSTANT RETURNS TO SCALE CONSUMER MARKETS CONSUMERS DEFLATORS DEVELOPMENT POLICY DISTRIBUTION CHANNELS ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC DIVERSITY ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY ELECTRICITY EMPLOYMENT EQUIPMENTS EXCISE DUTIES EXPORT MARKET EXPORT MARKETS EXPORTS EXTERNALITIES FIRMS FIXED COSTS FOREIGN INVESTMENT FOREIGN MARKETS FOREIGN TRADE FUEL HARMONIZATION HUMAN CAPITAL INCREASING RETURNS INCREASING RETURNS TO SCALE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION INFORMATION SYSTEMS INFRASTRUCTURES INSTALLATIONS INTERNATIONAL MARKETS INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAND USE LENGTH OF ROADS LOCAL INDUSTRIES LOCALISATION LOCALIZATION MANUFACTURING MARKET ACCESS MARKET ENTRY MISSING DATA MOTOR VEHICLES MOTORWAYS MULTINATIONAL MULTINATIONALS OPEN ACCESS PETROLEUM PRODUCTS POLITICAL ECONOMY POSITIVE EXTERNALITIES PRODUCTION FUNCTION PRODUCTION FUNCTIONS PRODUCTIVITY PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH RADIO RESULT RESULTS ROAD ROAD TYPES ROADS SUNK COSTS SUPPLIER SUPPLIERS TELECOMMUNICATIONS TELEPHONE TELEPHONE CONNECTION TELEVISION TIME PERIOD TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY TRADE COMPETITIVENESS TRANSPORT TRANSPORT EQUIPMENT TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE TRAVEL TIME TRUE WAGE RATES WAGES WEALTH WEB
Online Access:	http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20120228092204 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/3265

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Summary:	This paper examines locational factors that increase the odds of a firm's entry into export markets and affect the intensity of its participation. It differentiates between two different sources of spillovers: clustering of general economic activity and that of export-oriented activity. It also focuses on the effect of the business environment and that of institutions at the spatial unit of districts in India. The study disentangles the within-industry effect from the within-firm effect. A simple logit specification is used to model the probability of entry. The analysis is based on a panel of manufacturing firms in India, which allows for the introduction of firm-specific controls and a battery of fixed effects. The findings suggest that exporter-specific clustering, general economic agglomeration, and institutional factors affect firms' export behavior.