%0 Journal Article
%T Exporters' characteristics and the margins of trade
%A Asier Minondo
%A Francisco Requena
%J Economics and Business Letters
%D 2012
%I Oviedo University Press
%X This paper investigates the influence of exporting countries' characteristics on the number of exporters (extensive margin) and the average exports value per firm (intensive margin). For that purpose, we use a new database compiled by the OECD and Eurostat in the year 2005, which allows the calculation of trade margins in bilateral relationships involving a large number of exporting and importing countries. We find that there is almost a one-to-one relationship between exporters' GDP and the number of firms that participate in export markets. This proportionality remains when wedecompose GDP into an employment component and a labor productivity component. Our results also show that exporters' labor productivity is positively linked with the intensive margin of exports.
%K trade margins
%K gravity equation
%K trade costs
%K exporting firms
%K OECD
%U http://www.unioviedo.es/reunido/index.php/EBL/article/download/9454/9378