Imperial College London
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DrMirabelleMuuls

Business School

Associate Professor of Economics
 
 
 
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CAGB483City and Guilds BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Muuls:2015:10.1016/j.jinteco.2014.12.003,
author = {Muuls, M},
doi = {10.1016/j.jinteco.2014.12.003},
journal = {Journal of International Economics},
pages = {333--343},
title = {Exporters, importers and credit constraints},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2014.12.003},
volume = {95},
year = {2015}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - This paper analyzes the interaction between credit constraints and trading behavior, decomposing trade in extensive and intensive margins. I construct a unique dataset containing firm-level trade transaction data, balance sheets and credit scores from an independent credit insurance company for Belgian manufacturing firms between 1999 and 2007. Firms are more likely to be exporting or importing if they enjoy lower credit constraints. Also, firms that have better credit rating export and import more. Importing and exporting behaviors differ in how both the level and growth of the various margins of trade are related to credit constraints in one important dimension. In the case of exports, it is the intensive and extensive margins of exports in terms of both product and destinations that are significantly associated with credit constraints whereas for imports it is the extensive margin in terms of products only.
AU  - Muuls,M
DO  - 10.1016/j.jinteco.2014.12.003
EP  - 343
PY  - 2015///
SN  - 1873-0353
SP  - 333
TI  - Exporters, importers and credit constraints
T2  - Journal of International Economics
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2014.12.003
UR  - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022199614001482#
VL  - 95
ER  -
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