Bigsten, Arne; Collier, Paul; Dercon, Stefan; … - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2000
In this paper, we use firm-level panel data for the manufacturing sector in four African countries to estimate the effect of exporting on efficiency. Measures of firm-level efficiency using stochastic production frontier models are constructed for the period 1992 to 1995. We find that there are...