Profiling India's Rising Exports and E-commerce: A Critical Evaluation

Abstract

In light of the current initiative to transform India into an e-empowered economy in order to boost exports, this study aims to contribute to that effort. According to the study's assumption, e-commerce provides a suitable platform to minimize the expenses involved with entering and maintaining presence in international markets. After controlling for exporter self-selection, the empirical investigation zeroes down on export choice and export intensity to determine how they react to e-commerce. An endogenous treatment-effects regression model is necessary because patients may make non-random decisions on which therapy to receive. Using data from a sample of 2,191 manufacturing enterprises from 2010 to 2016, we find that firms that embrace e-commerce are, on average, 21.8% more likely to be exporters, and their export intensity is likely to grow by 7.9%.