fixed offshoring costs. In the skill-abundant country, high-productivity firms offshore a larger range of labor …-intensive inputs to the labor-abundant countries than low-productivity firms. Differently from the traditional versions of factor … intensity across firms that is positively correlated with firm productivity. Using French firm-level data for the years 1996 to …

into their direct (endowment accumulation, productivity growth, changes in trade costs, changing preferences) and indirect … productivity growth, and endogenous changes in expenditures shares on manufacturing goods and services. We quantify the importance … accumulation and trade costs have been the most important drivers of trade in the sample at hand, whereas productivity growth and …

estimates connecting country-industry productivity and exports, and the study exploits heterogeneous technology diffusion from …. The instrumented elasticity of export growth on the intensive margin with respect to the exporter's productivity growth is …

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 …

stable following the Bretton Woods period, despite the adoption of different monetary regimes. The estimation of an …