The impact of international trade on firm productivity is tested by accounting for firms' import as well as export … improvements are found to be highly contingent on export status, with import status being unimportant. The key finding of the paper … Difference in Differences, are used to calculate productivity improvements from entering into international trade. These …

productivity. Further, we analyse both own-direct effects of exporting (importing) and cross-direct ef- fects of exporting …

. This study finds that import intensity does not significantly affect productivity. However, the impact of import intensity … and FDI plants do not seem to differ in terms of productivity gain from higher import intensity compared to either younger …This study examines the impact of imported intermediates on plant productivity and the role of plant capability in …

export transactions. South African firm-level exporting is similar to the stylized facts of firm-level exporting found … exported, but also in terms of the number of products and destinations they export too. These in turn are related to firm …-level characteristics including productivity. …

productivity. We examine these claims. Non-parametric plots and regressions show a robust positive association between the … manufacturing sector and Business R&D expenditures (BERD), while the relationship between manufacturing and exports or productivity …

aggregate structural change. Rising manufacturing productivity and falling international trade costs further contribute to the … growth of large services firms in the densest urban areas, boosting services productivity and services exports, but also land …

This paper contributes to the literature by comparing the productivity distribution for firms with various numbers of … goods. It applies a non-parametric test for first-order stochastic dominance of one productivity distribution over another … imported from, the higher is the productivity of the firms - not only on average, but over the whole productivity distribution …