Financial Factors and Manufacturing Exports : Firm-Level Evidence from Egypt

Kiendrebeogo, Youssouf ; Minea, Alexandru

Taylor and Francis

关键词: FINANCIAL CONSTRAINTS;    EXPORTS;    SUNK COSTS;    EXPORT COMPETITIVENESS;   

DOI  :  10.1080/00220388.2016.1251583
RP-ID  :  122577

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

This paper focuses on the effects of financial factors on manufacturing firms’ export participation in a panel of Egyptian manufacturing firms over the 2003–2008 period. Our main results show that financial constraints reduce export participation of Egyptian firms, while financial liquidity improves it. Moreover, financial constraints have a negative impact on alternative measures of export activity, namely, export intensity and the time the firm takes before starting to export. Consequently, adding to the scarce literature on developing countries, our results support an important impact of financial factors on Egyptian firms’ participation in international trade.