@techreport{69ee6804657a448fb080faf2ee178f49,
title = "International standards certification, institutional voids and exports from developing country firms: What we know and what we don't know",
abstract = "This paper analyses the impact of International Standards Certification (ISC) on the export participation and the scale of exports of firms based in 89 developing or transition countries. We conceptualise ISC as an endogenous institutional advantage, which bridges institutional voids in the country and helps firms to export. The empirical results show that certified firms are more likely to export, and to export on a",
keywords = "certification, export performance, institutional voids, transaction costs",
author = "Micheline Goedhuys and Leo Sleuwagen",
year = "2016",
month = may,
day = "10",
language = "English",
series = "UNU-MERIT Working Papers",
publisher = "UNU-MERIT",
number = "021",
type = "WorkingPaper",
institution = "UNU-MERIT",
}