Trade and management
Bloom, N., Manova, K., Van Reenen, J.
, Sun, S. T. & Yu, Z.
(2021).
Trade and management.
Review of Economics and Statistics,
103(3), 443 - 460.
https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_00925
, Sun, S. T. & Yu, Z.
(2021).
Trade and management.
Review of Economics and Statistics,
103(3), 443 - 460.
https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_00925
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.
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Van Reenen, J., Manova, K., Bloom, N., Sun, S. T. & Yu, Z.
(2020).
Replication Data for: Trade and Management.
[Dataset]. Harvard Dataverse.
https://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/7qq6gk