Research Article

The Dynamic Evolution of Overseas Market Network of Chinese Enterprises: Agglomeration or Dispersion

Table 7

Export experience and the dynamic evolution of Chinese enterprises’ overseas market network (source: the authors’ calculations).

First export enterpriseHistorical export enterprise
(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)

Whether to export in the previous period171.2938
(6.8896)
171.3439
(6.8907)
165.6504
(6.7878)
295.6239
(17.7914)
294.8625
(17.7057)
286.3229
(18.2174)
Number of neighboring export enterprises0.0001
(0.0000)
0.0005
(0.0002)
Geographic network expansion effect0.3402
(0.0935)
0.3264
(0.0950)
0.2897
(0.0849)
−0.3863
(0.0632)
−0.3531
(0.0615)
−0.5798
(0.1689)
Neighboring geographical network expansion effect0.0720
(0.0376)
−0.0019
(0.0002)
Economic network expansion effect0.5111
(0.0760)
0.4881
(0.0763)
0.4668
(0.0753)
0.8724
(0.3320)
0.7923
(0.3321)
0.7287
(0.3203)
Neighboring economic network expansion effect0.4847
(0.0609)
1.0872
(0.2949)
Number of trade connections in the previous period0.3621
(0.0177)
0.3649
(0.0179)
0.3466
(0.0172)
0.7039
(0.0597)
0.7079
(0.0601)
0.6424
(0.0627)
Geographic search effect4.8811
(0.5080)
4.3296
(0.5176)
3.9976
(0.5165)
9.8902
(2.6199)
8.3461
(2.6515)
7.7045
(2.6325)
Geographical remoteness effect−7.5281
(5.3306)
−8.3767
(5.3725)
−9.8826
(5.4196)
33.2194
(15.1388)
31.8277
(15.3740)
26.0266
(14.0127)
Trade remoteness effect0.4218
(0.4109)
0.4341
(0.4115)
0.1823
(0.4076)
1.9223
(1.9154)
1.8774
(1.9101)
1.3288
(1.8997)
Number of host countries in the community1.1273
(0.2744)
1.1770
(0.2802)
3.9037
(1.2544)
3.9319
(1.2415)
Control variableControlControlControlControlControlControl
Pseudo R20.49800.49820.50230.51660.51690.5222
Sample size676266676266676266133998133998133998

Note., , and represent the significance level of 10%, 5%, and 1%, respectively. The clustering robust standard deviation of the estimated coefficients is given in parentheses. The estimated coefficients are all marginal effects.