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Profitability And Trade In Developing Countries

Although quite a bit of research has been done on investigating the relationship between profitability and trade in developed countries, the area has not received proportionate attention in the context of developing countries, especially more recently. Given continuous trade reforms and the increasing influence of the WTO, policy formulation for developing country markets requires continual examination of this link between profitability and trade for more developing countries than have been analyzed thus far. This article, therefore, studies this relationship for Egypt empirically using panel data analysis. It finds that capital formation and openness of an industry have significant impact on price-cost margins. Moreover, unlike many previous studies, statistically significant linkage is also found between exports and margins. The results support further movement toward openness.