enter in year t are less productive than incumbent firms in year t. (H3) Surviving firms from an entry cohort were more … 1992): (H1) Firms that exit in year t were in t-1 less productive than firms that continue to produce in t. (H2) Firms that …

time effects. All countries display a massive reallocation of resources, with the entry and exit of many firms in all … market contestability. There are also large differences across groups of countries. While entry and exit rates are fairly … similar across industrial countries, post entry performance differs markedly between Europe and the U.S., a potential …

raising the extensive margin of processing exports in China for the period of 1997-2007. …

quality played an important role in raising the extensive margin of processing exports in China for the period of 1997 …

entry costs that can only by paid by more productive firms. …

/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 …

This paper documents the relationship between firm survival and three types of international trade activities - exports … (with and without explicitly taking the rare events nature of firm exit into account) point to a strong positive link …

evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly …