Trade and management

Bloom, Nicholas, Manova, Kalina, Van Reenen, John, Sun, Stephen Teng and Yu, Zhihong (2021) Trade and management. Review of Economics and Statistics, 103 (3). 443 - 460. ISSN 0034-6535

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Abstract

We study how management practices shape export performance using matched production-trade-management data for Chinese and American firms and a randomized control trial in India. Better-managed firms are more likely to export, sell more products to more destinations, and earn higher export revenues and profits. They export higher-quality products at higher prices and lower quality-adjusted prices. They import a wider range of inputs and inputs of higher quality and price, from more advanced countries. We rationalize these patterns with a heterogeneous-firm model in which effective management improves performance by raising production efficiency and quality capacity.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://direct.mit.edu/rest
Additional Information:	© 2020 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Divisions:	Economics
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD8682 Industrial Relations - India H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HF Commerce H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions
Date Deposited:	06 Aug 2021 09:30
Last Modified:	20 Sep 2025 02:03
URI:	http://eprintstest.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/111559

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