Export Mode Heterogeneity And Manufacturing Enterprise Productivity

In recent years, the theory of micro enterprises and its empirical research is an academic hotspot, to which the theory of heterogeneous enterprise trade that takes micro enterprises as the research object emerges in response. As the research frontier of international trade theory, literature that investigates the relationship between export trade and firm productivity from the perspective of micro industries and even the enterprise level has become increasingly fruitful. In former studies, especially in domestic, few scholars investigate it from the view of the heterogeneity of the export model. This paper thoroughly considers the mechanisms of the impact that expert exerts to productivity, and takes heterogeneity of the export model as the pointcut, investigating the effect of direct export and indirect export on firm’s productivity. We explain the hypothesis of learning by exporting about knowledge spillover. Empirical evidence suggest that: direct export promotes the rise in firm’s productivity, which will present an increasing trend with the increase of the direct export. Accordingly, indirect export has no significant effect on productivity. This paper concludes that direct export is the important channel of learning by exporting thus has remarkable promotion to firm’s productivity.