Standard deviation metrics for the growth of surviving export firms are provided by the World Bank's Exporter Dynamics Database. This dataset offers country-year level indicators derived from customs transaction records. The organization responsible is the Exporter Dynamics Database – Indicators at Country-Year Level.
Use Cases
- Analyze the volatility of export firm growth across countries using the standard deviation metric.
- Model the relationship between economic stability and the StDev of surviving entrant growth by country-year.
- Benchmark national export sector resilience by comparing the growth variation indicator over time.
Strengths
- Derived from exporter-level customs transaction data, providing a firm-level foundation.
- Organized at the country-year level for systematic cross-national and temporal analysis.
Limitations
- Specific row count, time range, and geographic coverage are unknown.
- Underlying sample size and potential selection biases for surviving firms are not detailed.
Provenance
- Source
- World Bank Exporter Dynamics Database.
- Collection Method
- Calculated from customs records of export transactions.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Country-level coverage, specific countries unknown.