development increases countries' exports above and beyond its impact on overall production. Firm selection into exporting accounts … for a third of the trade-specific effect, while two thirds are due to reductions in firm-level exports. Second …, financially advanced economies export a wider range of products and their exports experience less product turnover. Finally, while …

process innovation). After carefully correcting for endogeneity and selection issues, the evidence points to firms self …

are related to credit constraints in one important dimension. In the case of exports, it is the intensive and extensive … margins of exports in terms of both product and destinations that are significantly associated with credit constraints whereas …

This paper explores the link between exports and total factor productivity (TFP) in Brazilian manufacturing firms over … exports significantly, but with stagnant aggregate TFP growth. The authors first estimate firm-level TFP under alternative … control for the possibility that selection into exports may not be a random process. Their results confirm the self …