Export Spillover and Export Survival in Spain

Abstract

Using data from Spanish exporting manufacturing firms, this paper investigates whether the presence of firms that regularly export a product to a country helps other nearby companies that start exporting to maintain longer-lasting export relationships. First, we find clear evidence that the survival rate of new exporting companies is higher in those export relationships defined at the province-product-destination level when there is at least one regular exporter. Second, when there are more than 10 regular exporters in the same province, the positive impact increases significantly. Third, the positive effect of the concentration of regular exporters is very specific: the impact is smaller or null at the level of province-product, province-industry or province-destination.

Keywords:

externalities, survival, new exporters, duration models