INTER-FIRM PERFORMANCE OF GOA’S IRON – ORE EXPORTS: ANALYSIS USING MICRO – LEVEL DATA
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2025-03-01
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This paper points out the sources of difference in the firm level export performances among the
new/mature, and the competitive/ uncompetitive firms. This study uses micro (panel) data for firms in
iron-ore export industry in Goa (India) to identify a number of systematic differences in firm’s export
performance within the State. It is recognized that firms within iron-ore export industry have
idiosyncratic differences in their efficiency of production and export performances. This underlying
market share and market leadership heterogeneity, when embedded in a market framework, generates
a size distribution of producers, distribution across firms, an endogenous exit decision for incumbent
firms based on their productivity and ability to sustain, and an endogenous flow of new entering firms.