Learning by exporting refers to the mechanism whereby firms improve their performance (productivity) after entering … from a large internal inconsistency: they rely on an exogenous evolving productivity process. I show how recent proxy … estimators can accommodate endogenous productivity processes such as learning by exporting. I rely on my framework to discuss the …

In this paper, we propose an extension of the productivity decomposition method developed by Olley & Pakes (1996). This … extension provides an accounting for the contributions of both firm entry and exit to aggregate productivity changes. It breaks … productivity and another accounting for market share reallocations among those firms - following the same methodology as the one …

We weigh into the debate about whether rising productivity is ever a consequence rather than a cause of exporting …. Exporting and investing to raise productivity are complimentary activities. For lower-productivity firms, incurring the fixed … foreign tariffs will induce these firms to simultaneously export and invest in productivity. In contrast, lower foreign …

differ by export mode. We find that demand and productivity evolve more favorably under direct exporting, though the fixed …

role in increasing productivity growth in U.S. manufacturing. Contemporaneous levels of exports and productivity are indeed … positively correlated across manufacturing industries. However, tests on industry data show causality from productivity to … exporting but not the reverse. While exporting plants have substantially higher productivity levels, we find no evidence that …

-distributed firm productivity, which has become a tractable benchmark. This benchmark model predicts that, conditional on the fixed …-level productivity, fixed costs and demand shifters, and use "exact hat algebra" to quantify the effects of a decline in trade costs on …

productivity sort across city sizes and select into exporting. The model allows us to study the geographic implications of trade … raises not only the aggregate productivity of the economy but also its aggregate export intensity, by allowing more firms to …