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Market concentration, trade exposure, and firm productivity in developing countries: Evidence from Mexico

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  • Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos
  • López-Calva, Luis Felipe
  • Barriga-Cabanillas, Oscar
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To show how local market concentration affects firm productivity, we exploit a rare database for developing-country standards consisting of five rounds of the Mexican Manufacturing Census and geographically disaggregated data on sectoral exports. Our estimates show that a decline by 10 points in the Herfindahl-Hirschman index, a measure of market concentration, explains an increase by 1 percent in the total factor productivity (TFP) of revenue. We also find that greater exposure to trade offsets and, in most cases, reverses the negative effects of local concentration on productivity. Our heterogeneity analysis also shows that informal firms exhibit a higher probability of exiting the market if competitive pressure and exposure to international markets increase and that firms in the southern region of the country would benefit the most from higher competition and exposure to international markets.

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  • Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos & López-Calva, Luis Felipe & Barriga-Cabanillas, Oscar, 2023. "Market concentration, trade exposure, and firm productivity in developing countries: Evidence from Mexico," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 165(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:wdevel:v:165:y:2023:i:c:s0305750x23000177
    DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2023.106199
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    • D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
    • D43 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection
    • F12 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation
    • F14 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Empirical Studies of Trade
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