Imperial College London

DrMirabelleMuuls

Business School

Associate Professor of Economics
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 9059m.muuls CV

 
 
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Location

 

CAGB483City and Guilds BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@unpublished{Muûls:2008,
author = {Muûls, M},
title = {Exporters and credit constraints. A firm-level approach},
year = {2008}
}

RIS format (EndNote, RefMan)

TY  - UNPB
AB - By building a theoretical model and taking it to the data with two novel datasets, this paper analyses the interaction between credit constraints and exporting behaviour. Building a heterogeneous firms model of international trade with liquidity-constrained firms yields several predictions on the equilibrium relationships between productivity, credit constraints and exports that are then verified in the data. The main findings of the paper are that firms are more likely to be exporting if they enjoy higher productivity levels and lower credit constraints. Also, credit constraints are important in determining the extensive but not the intensive margin of trade in terms of destinations. This introduces a pecking order of trade. Finally, an exchange rate appreciation will cause existing exporters to reduce their exports, entry of credit-constrained potential exporters and exit of the least productive exporters
AU - Muûls,M
PY - 2008///
TI - Exporters and credit constraints. A firm-level approach
ER -