RT Journal Article
T1 Domestic transport infrastructure and firms’ export market participation
A1 Albarrán, Pedro
A1 Carrasco, Raquel
A1 Holl, Adelheid
AB Investment in transport infrastructure reduces the cost of distance and enables firms to establish contacts over larger distances. Using data from a panel of Spanish manufacturing firms and geographic information system techniques, this article studies the impact of domestic transport cost reductions on firms’ export market participation, taking into account the role of entry costs and other firm characteristics. We estimate dynamic probability models, controlling for the unobserved heterogeneity of firms and for the simultaneity of firms’ export and location decisions. Our results demonstrate a positive effect of domestic transport infrastructure improvements on small and medium-sized firms’ probability of exporting
PB Springer
SN 0921-898X
YR 2013
FD 2013
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/13899
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/13899
LA eng
NO Research funding from theFundación Ramón Areces and DGI, Spanish Ministry ofEducation, grant no. SEJ2006-05710/ECON, ECO2009-11165, SEJ2007-63098 and SEJ2006-08063 is gratefullyacknowledged.
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