. Globalization is shown to induce heterogeneous responses across firms in terms of scope and productivity, some of which are …

minimum wages and productivity on firms' exports. It shows that the influence of minimum wages on firms' exporting probability … and foreign sales is negative while that of firms' productivity on their exports is positive. Econometric analysis based … 2007 verifies these predictions. Holding the other variables constant, if minimum wages and their productivity increase by …

and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm's innovation … and export activities, using unique firm survey data which provides direct measures for innovations and firm …-specific financial constraints. We find that financial constraints restraint heability of domestically owned firms to innovate and export …

The paper tests the role of agglomeration effects on the export decision of services firms. Recent theories on trade … with heterogeneous firms predict that export participation goes along with sunk market-entry costs. Only the more …-city areas. Standard empirical tests of the new trade models consistently find productivity-based ex ante self selection by …

aggressive export policies of Northern Europe via their low wage policies. (6b) Given the similarity of the tax policies in the …

The desire to increase manufacturing productivity has been a commonly cited goal of the trade liberalization episodes … in productivity. However, this paper finds that the methodology used in the literature ignores inter …-industry productivity spillovers and suggests that this omission biases estimates of the impact of import tariff reduction on industry …

factor productivity (TFP) in determining both the wage premium and tariffs. This omission invalidates the use of the pre … tariffs reduces the wage premium by 1.1%. This finding suggests the importance of using policies that boost productivity to …

German and Austrian firm productivity. Unique matching of data from 1994 to 2003 suggests that tarif reductions raise parent … firm productivity significantly. A ten percentage point decrease in tarif rates can lead to total factor productivity gains …

In this paper, we introduce uncertainty of the labour productivity of women in a competitive model of wage …

examine the determinants of a firm's choice of destination countries and show that their export paths follow systematic … patterns. We develop a model of export dynamics where firms decide in each period the countries to which they sell. Our model … enormous number of possible export paths from which firms may choose, conventional estimation approaches based on discrete …