In new new international trade theory, whether firms export or not are determined by their productivity. These models … assume that firms enter a market to find their productivity levels revealed to them as in a lottery. In this paper we propose … with a real option value. We show that endogenizing the export decision is consistent with patterns of productivity and …

productivity, wages and exports spillovers in developing, developed and transitional economies. Although theory can identify a …

document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the … systematically by testing for self-selection of more productive firms into importing, and for productivity-enhancing effects of … imports ('learning-by-importing'). We find a positive link between importing and productivity. From an empirical model with …

evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … taking differences along the conditional productivity distribution and firms with extreme values, or outliers, into account …) indicate that the productivity pecking order found in numerous studies using data for firms from manufacturing industries …

evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … taking differences along the conditional productivity distribution and firms with extreme values, or outliers, into account …) indicate that the productivity pecking order found in numerous studies using data for firms from manufacturing industries …

document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the … systematically by testing for self-selection of more productive firms into importing, and for productivity-enhancing effects of … imports ('learning-by-importing'). We find a positive link between importing and productivity. From an empirical model with …

In "new" new international trade theory, whether firms export or not are determined by their productivity. These models … assume that firms enter a market to find their productivity levels revealed to them as in a lottery. In this paper we propose … with a real option value. We show that endogenizing the export decision is consistent with patterns of productivity and …