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 …

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 …

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 …

drives low-productivity firms from the small country's home market, replacing them with high-productivity exporters from … abroad. This endogenous policy response creates a selection effect that increases the average productivity of home firms when …

productivity - enhancing effect. The reform of fixed-term contracts instead did not produce the intended results: it induced a … substitution of temporary employees in favor of permanent ones and reduced capital intensity, generating productivity losses. We …

firms, and multiple asymmetric regions. Wages, productivity, consumption diversity, and markups across firms and markets are … by the Canada-US border. We find that Canadian average labor productivity increases by 8.03%, whereas US average labor … productivity rises by just 1.02%. Consumers' exposure to market power falls sizably by up to 12.11% in the Canadian provinces, and …

, those with intermediate productivity will export, and those with higher productivity will choose fragmentation. Among the … elsewhere) can be used by multinational firms which have different productivity to serve the market abroad when product chains … abroad by either horizontal or vertical FDI. Upon opening a market to trade, firms with the lowest productivity will exit …