-distributed firm productivity and fixed costs of exporting, predicts that, conditional on the fixed costs of exporting, all variation … of firm productivity allows the Melitz model to successfully match the role of the intensive margin evident in the EDD … estimate a generalized Melitz model with a joint lognormal distribution for firm productivity, fixed costs and demand shifters …

' management competency is associated with a 7.5 percent improvement in sales productivity and a 29.2 increase in profitability …

and sheds light on the effects of productivity growth. On the basis of a Geometric Brownian motion, three different … productivity scenarios are considered (no growth, deterministic growth, uncertain growth) and opposed to each other. The … introduction of productivity growth increases the likeliness of first time market entry through FDI. If the firm is confronted with …

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 …