Why is it that exporter productivity premia (EPP) differ so widely in size? We take this question to the theory and to … EPPs across sectors, and hence across countries, can be explained by the variation in productivity dispersion, trade costs …

productive enough to overcome the entry costs of foreign markets. Once firms pass this productivity threshold, they all export … non-exporters. However, selecting high export potentials is difficult in practice. The contribution of this paper is to … characterize and identify these (high) export potentials. According to the Melitz (2003) model, potential exporters have to be …

This paper characterizes the dynamic empirical properties of country export capabilities in order to inform modelling … heavy-tailed distribution of industry export capabilities that is approximately log normal and whose shape is stable across … productivities. We establish that mean reversion in export capability, rather than indicative of convergence in productivities or …

This paper examines the interaction between productivity growth, firms' monopolistic market power, and workers' wage … study the correlation of the estimated parameters and markups with the firm-level productivity growth. Second, the paper …

The productivity of firms is, at least partly, determined by a firm's actions and decisions. One of these decisions … endogenous response of revenue-based and quantity-based productivity to a change in layers: a firm reorganization. We show that … as a result of an exogenous demand or productivity shock that makes the firm reorganize and add a management layer …

We investigate the role of workers' and managerial experience as a determinant of firm innovation and productivity in a … innovation and productivity. The effect of managerial experience measured by age on firm performance depends instead on the type … of firm: high age of managers and board members is bad for innovation and productivity growth, while costs and benefits …

Using firm and industry data, we establish two facts: (i) Uncertainty about demand conditions not only reduces export … of export shares from the most to the least productive incumbents. Greater skewness of the demand distribution and …

that are implicit in previous firm-level productivity estimation approaches. We use Belgian firms production data to … key firm-level outcomes: export status and size …

We determine workforce composition and wages in firms in the presence of productivity spill-overs between co …