We explore the relationship between innovation activity, productivity, and exports using a panel of Spanish … explaining the positive export-productivity association documented in prior research. For the sample of small innovating firms …, we find no significant differences in productivity levels between exporters and non-exporters. Especially product …

productivity growth linked to the delayed effects of previously invented 'general purpose technologies' stimulated an increase in … fixed investment that became excessive and proved to be unsustainable, while the productivity acceleration helps to account …

Foreign-owned firms are often hypothesized to generate productivity “spillovers” to the host country, but both …-ante identical workers learn from their employers in proportion to the firm’s productivity. Foreign-owned firms have, on average …, higher productivity in equilibrium due to entry costs, which means that low-productivity foreign firms cannot enter. Foreign …

business sector labour productivity in the major OECD countries. The method implies that the trend is the long-run forecast of … productivity, given all available information; the cycle is thus interpreted as the total excess growth that would be forecasted … beyond `normal' rates of productivity (see Evans and Reichlin (1993a)). Multivariate trends in productivity were estimated …

distribution costs in the export market, high and low productivity firms react differently to a depreciation . Whereas high … productivity firms optimally raise their markup rather than the volume they export, low productivity firms choose the opposite … aggregate impact of exchange rate movements. The presence of fixed costs to export means that only high productivity firms can …

competition, search and matching in its labor market, and wage bargaining. Some of the workers searching for jobs end up being … shaping welfare, trade flows, productivity, and unemployment. We show that both countries gain from trade but that the …

Recent literature on multinational firms has stressed the importance of low productivity as a barrier to the cross …

makers are interested in measuring the effect of various competition and trade policies on market power, typically measured … productivity, ii) exporters charge on average higher markups and iii) firms’ markups increase (decrease) upon export entry (exit …). We see these findings as a first step in opening up the productivity-export black box, and provide a potential …