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 …

that are implicit in previous firm-level productivity estimation approaches. We use Belgian firms production data to …We develop a new econometric framework that simultaneously allows recovering heterogeneity in demand, TFP and markups … quantify TFP, demand and markups and show how they are correlated among them, across time and with measures obtained from other …

-effects estimation and remedying commonly suspected biases. Whereas productivity change is measured consistently, scale economies are not …Production function estimation with micro-data shows that a persistent unobserved variable varies within firm or plant … over time but resists treatment and may cause biases. This paper presents an estimation model of the firm under endogenous …

Whether a firm is able to attract foreign capital and whether it may participate at the export market depends on …. These findings are established through the estimation of a spatial bivariate probit model. …

This paper provides a direct test of how fixed export costs and productivity jointly determine firm-level export …, while those with higher productivity export more. These outcomes are the foundation of the widely-used sorting mechanism in … greater fixed export costs than low-productivity exporters. We also find that the substitution between fixed export costs and …

uncover the determinants of the fickle and stable parts of firm export product mix, we use a cross section of firm …

show that the distribution of export intensity not only varies substantially across countries, but in a large number of … dispersion, the distribution of export intensity has two modes in the boundaries of the support and their height is determined by … export intensity. Our results show that when the conditions for the existence of twin peaks are met, differences in relative …

Brazil's trade liberalization between 1990 and 1993, and its partial reversal in 1995, are used to study how reduced … inward trade barriers affect productivity. The production function of Brazilian manufacturers is estimated at the ISIC3 two …-digit level under various alternatives, including an extension of Olley and Pakes' (1996) procedure. Firm-level productivity is …

-ups. Counterfactual analysis indicates that entry upstream benefits high-productivity buyers, while lower matching or trade costs benefit … all buyers, with the biggest boost to mid-productivity buyers. All three shocks generate sizeable welfare gains …