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David vs. Goliath? Smaller European Exporting firms facing Asian competition on global markets
Author(s) -
Abraham Filip,
Van Hove Jan,
Studnicka Zuzanna
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
scottish journal of political economy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.4
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1467-9485
pISSN - 0036-9292
DOI - 10.1111/sjpe.12109
Subject(s) - competition (biology) , china , margin (machine learning) , international trade , business , economics , east asia , international market , value (mathematics) , international economics , political science , ecology , machine learning , computer science , law , biology
This paper analyses the presence of Asian competition in the export markets of Belgian manufacturing firms between 1998 and 2010. We focus on the value of exports at the firm level where we consider both the intensive and the extensive margin. Within Asia a distinction is made between China, India, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan. We find that Asian competition matters significantly for Belgian export companies.