Bigsten, A.; Collier, P.; Dercon, S. - HEC Montréal (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 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.