Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/109943 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Economics Discussion Papers No. 2015-32
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
This paper is the first to explore the links between exporting and importing activities of Egyptian firms using panel data over the period from 2003 to 2007. The main aim is twofold. Firstly, the authors report regression results indicating that firms that both export and import are the most productive, followed by importing-, exporting-only firms and nontraders. Secondly, the authors estimate the determinants of the extensive and intensive margins of exports and imports using dynamic panel-Probit and panel-Tobit models in combination with the method proposed by Hesketh and Skrondal (2013) to tackle the initial conditions problem. Their results show that both activities present a high degree of hysteresis, which is higher for imports than for exports pointing to the existence of sunk costs in both activities. Moreover, past productivity does affect the extensive margin of imports, but not of exports and the initial condition status is also only relevant for the import side. Similar outcomes are obtained for the intensive margin of trade.
Subjects: 
Firm level data
Egypt
internationalization
imports
exports
intermediates
JEL: 
F14
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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