This paper explores the link between exports and total factor productivity (TFP) for Brazilian manufacturing firms over …, to control for the possibility that selection into exports may not be a random process. Their results confirm the self …

This paper provides new evidence on the long-run relationship between exports and imports of the Iranian economy by … between imports and exports over the sample period, 1960-2007. This result confirms the finding of Arize (Imports and Exports …

We evaluate the impact of firm-specific export subsidies on exports in Colombia. Using a two-stage Heckman selection … persistence in exports, we find that although, in general, subsidies exhibit positive impact on export volumes, this impact is …

/2009. Almost all of the decline in exports was due to negative changes of exports in firms that continue to export (i.e. at the so …-called intensive margin) while the decrease of exports due to export stoppers (at the so-called extensive margin) was tiny. It is shown …

. Secondly, the authors estimate the determinants of the extensive and intensive margins of exports and imports using dynamic … imports than for exports pointing to the existence of sunk costs in both activities. Moreover, past productivity does affect … the extensive margin of imports, but not of exports and the initial condition status is also only relevant for the import …