Trade effects of a negative export shock on direct exporters and wholesalers
ISSN: 0144-3585
Article publication date: 29 August 2022
Issue publication date: 13 July 2023
Abstract
Purpose
This paper aims to investigate the effects of a multifaceted negative Russian export shock of 2014 on the exports Estonian firms that exported non-embargoed goods to Russia.
Design/methodology/approach
The dataset covers all the Estonian exporters that exported non-embargoed goods to Russia in 2013 and the empirical analysis uses a difference-in-difference method in combination with the coarsened exact matching method to account for heterogeneities between the treatment and control groups.
Findings
The empirical findings show that wholesalers affected were generally able to show better export performance after the negative shock than direct exporters were. The trade performance after the shock was lower for both wholesalers and direct exporters that had lower initial productivity levels.
Originality/value
As a novelty, this study simultaneously addresses several firm heterogeneities to illustrate how the trade effects of a negative export shock differ between firms with different key characteristics, including between wholesalers and direct exporters.
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Acknowledgements
This article is a revised version of the author's previous working papers Juust (2021a, b).
Funding: This work was supported by the Estonian Research Council (Funder DOI: 90000759; Award Number: PRG791) and European Economic Area (EEA) Financial Mechanism 2014-2021 (Award Number: Global2Micro).
Corrigendum: It has come to the attention of the publisher that the article by Mathias Juust (2023), “Trade effects of a negative export shock on direct exporters and wholesalers”, published in the Journal of Economic Studies, Vol. 50 No. 5, pp. 967-986, https://doi.org/10.1108/JES-01-2022-0056, incorrectly featured data on export values expressed in Estonia's former currency kroon (EEK) and not in euros (EUR). Specifically, this error in the units of export value means that the descriptive statistics on firms’ export values are incorrect in the article’s appendices. This issue does not directly affect the main results presented in Tables 1–4, where the trade effects on treated firms are translated into percentage changes in export value as the dependent variable, with the measurement unit of export value not affecting the treatment effect. However, this error in measurement units could affect the effectiveness of the applied matching procedure that included one variable on the firm-level ratio of exports to total revenues, although it should not significantly affect the weights received by matching and thereby the main results presented in the article. The author sincerely apologizes for this mistake.
Citation
Juust, M. (2023), "Trade effects of a negative export shock on direct exporters and wholesalers", Journal of Economic Studies, Vol. 50 No. 5, pp. 967-986. https://doi.org/10.1108/JES-01-2022-0056
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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