» Firm size and the use of export intermediaries. A replication study of Abel-Koch (The World Economy, 2013)

• Main Author: Joachim Wagner
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: ZBW 2017-06-01
• Series: International Journal for Re-Views in Empirical Economics
• Subjects: replication study; indirect exports; turkey; egypt
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.18718/81781.1

This study replicates estimation results from Jennifer Abel-Koch, Who Uses Intermediaries in International trade? Evidence from Firm-level Survey Data, published in The World Economy (2013). In this paper she uses firm-level data from Turkey. The pure replication performed here that is based on a sample that differs only marginally from the sample used in the original study is successful. In addition to the pure replication I use firm-level data for Egypt from a highly similar survey. The most important result found by Abel-Koch for Turkey – a negative relationship between firm size and the intensity of use of intermediaries in exports – is found for Egypt, too. Results for the link between other firm characteristics and indirect exports via intermediaries, however, often turn out to be different.