Replication data for: Market Size, Competition, and the Product Mix of Exporters

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- Mayer, Thierry
- Melitz, Marc J.
- Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.
Publication Date
2014-02-01
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Abstract
We build a theoretical model of multi-product firms that highlights how competition across market destinations affects both a firm's exported product range and product mix. We show how tougher competition in an export market induces a firm to skew its export sales toward its best performing products. We find very strong confirmation of this competitive effect for French exporters across export market destinations. Theoretically, this within-firm change in product mix driven by the trading environment has important repercussions on firm productivity. A calibrated fit to our theoretical model reveals that these productivity effects are potentially quite large.
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DOI: 10.1257/aer.104.2.495 (Text)
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Mayer, Thierry, Marc J. Melitz, and Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano. “Market Size, Competition, and the Product Mix of Exporters.” American Economic Review 104, no. 2 (February 2014): 495–536. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.104.2.495.
- ID: 10.1257/aer.104.2.495 (DOI)
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