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International Involvement and Production Efficiency among Startup Firms

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  • H. Young Baek
  • Florence Neymotin

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The economic theory of small firms often requires a reasoning process distinct from those typically used for large multinational enterprises (MNEs), since small firms typically do not possess the resources MNEs commonly employ to outperform similar domestic firms. In the current analysis, we argue that new small firms with international sales can better predict their revenue stream than can comparably aged firms with only domestic sales, and, as a result, international selling firms have higher levels of technical productive efficiency. We employ 7829 firm-year observations from the 2007 to 2011 years of the Kauffman Firm Survey microdata sample in our analysis. A stochastic frontier model empirically supports the result that technical productive efficiency is positively related to the foreign sales ratio. These results hold after controlling for multiple relevant owner and firm characteristics, as well as accounting for potential endogeneity concerns.

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  • H. Young Baek & Florence Neymotin, 2016. "International Involvement and Production Efficiency among Startup Firms," Global Economic Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 45(1), pages 42-62, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:glecrv:v:45:y:2016:i:1:p:42-62
    DOI: 10.1080/1226508X.2015.1084240
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    1. H. Young Baek & Florence Neymotin, 2019. "Overconfident entrepreneurs: Innovating more and paying the piper," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 39(2), pages 1144-1153.

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