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The size distribution of exporting and non‐exporting firms in a panel of C hinese provinces
Author(s) -
Peng Guohua,
Xia Fan
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
papers in regional science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.937
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1435-5957
pISSN - 1056-8190
DOI - 10.1111/pirs.12119
Subject(s) - business , distribution (mathematics) , panel data , economics , econometrics , mathematics , mathematical analysis
Abstract This paper studies the size distribution of exporting and non‐exporting firms in a panel of C hinese provinces. The power law exponents of exporting firms are significantly less than those of non‐exporting firms. The average power law exponents fell from 0.74 in 1998 to 0.64 in 2007 for exporting firms, and from 1.03 in 1998 to 0.83 in 2007 for non‐exporting firms. Further analysis showed that credit constraints have a significant negative effect on the exponents of the size distribution of exporting firms, suggesting that smaller firms are more credit‐constrained than larger firms.