We study, both theoretically and empirically, how export intensity (the ratio of exports to sales) is related to firm … strongly negatively correlated with export intensity to low-income destinations and uncorrelated with export intensity to high … plausible assumptions, our model predicts that the elasticity of export intensity to productivity is increasing in per capita …

purpose, we use export intensities (the ratio of exports to sales) across destinations as our key measures of firms … correlation between revenue-TFP and export intensity to low-income destinations and, more generally, that the correlations between … export intensities and TFP are increasing in per capita income of the foreign destinations. We argue that these (and other …