increasing in firm productivity while the number of produced products that are exported is weakly increasing in firm productivity … the relationships between firm productivity and the numbers of exported products observed in the data, several demand and …

on productivity is different for plants being more embedded in international markets through exporting or being part of a …We investigate the impact of international outsourcing on productivity using plant level data for Irish manufacturing … outsourcing of services on productivity for firms not operating on the export market. …

This paper assesses the ‘one big wave’ in multi-factor productivity (MFP) growth for the United States since 1870. The … mysterious doubling in the ratio of output to capital input when the postwar era is compared with 1870-1929. Measurement … the measurement of capital. A new MFP series taking account of all these adjustments grows more slowly throughout, and the …

We expect trade liberalization to give rise to aggregate productivity gains, as the least efficient firms are forced … importance of intrinsic firm efficiency relative to input quality as sources of exporters’ productivity premium, employing a … matched employer-employee data set for Norwegian manufacturing. Augmented measures of total factor productivity which take …

In this paper we analyse productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment using firm level panel data UK …

for their domestic sales of this variety. Consistently with the hypothesis of quality upgrading before exporting, we find …

more pronounced amongst profit-making firms, firms in capital intensive industries and those with previous exporting …

This paper investigates whether government support can act to increase exporting activity. We use a uniquely rich data …. Our results suggest that if grants are large enough they can encourage already exporting firms to compete more effectively … on the international market. However, there is little evidence that grants encourage non-exporters to start exporting. …