Arbeitspapier

Exporters and credit constraints. A firm-level approach

By building a theoretical model and taking it to the data with two novel datasets, this paper analyses the interaction between credit constraints and exporting behaviour. Building a heterogeneous firms model of international trade with liquidity-constrained firms yields several predictions on the equilibrium relationships between productivity, credit constraints and exports that are then verified in the data. The main findings of the paper are that firms are more likely to be exporting if they enjoy higher productivity levels and lower credit constraints. Also, credit constraints are important in determining the extensive but not the intensive margin of trade in terms of destinations. This introduces a pecking order of trade. Finally, an exchange rate appreciation will cause existing exporters to reduce their exports, entry of credit-constrained potential exporters and exit of the least productive exporters

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: NBB Working Paper ; No. 139

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Trade: General
Financial Aspects of Economic Integration
Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation
Thema
Credit constraints
heterogeneous firms
margins of export
export destinations
exchange rates and trade
Liquiditätsbeschränkung
Außenhandelsfinanzierung
Exportwirtschaft
Wechselkurs
Theorie
Belgien

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Muûls, Mirabelle
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
National Bank of Belgium
(wo)
Brussels
(wann)
2008

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Muûls, Mirabelle
  • National Bank of Belgium

Entstanden

  • 2008

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