evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … taking differences along the conditional productivity distribution and firms with extreme values, or outliers, into account …) indicate that the productivity pecking order found in numerous studies using data for firms from manufacturing industries …

extensive and the intensive margins and the connection between exporting dynamics and plant-level total factor productivity … and account for a small share of gross, industry-level changes in exports, employment, output, and productivity. The … dynamics at the intensive margin is intense and heterogeneous. Plant mobility across deciles of export distribution has an …

We use plant output and input prices to decompose the profit margin into four parts: productivity, demand shocks, mark … the impact of productivity, and other market fundamentals, on plant exit. A dynamic simulation that compares the … distribution of productivity with and without the trade reform shows that improvements in market selection from trade reform help …

-setting power) and (iii) revenue productivity. We apply this framework to analyze whether the pricing behavior of firms in product … find export status to be positively correlated with both product market power (markups) and market power consolidated on …

Within a structural model we explicitly allow for the trade orientation of companies to estimate productivity dynamics … for exogenous demand shocks by trade orientation, assuming that labour and capital are state variables, and productivity … variable that is driven by lagged productivity as in Melitz (2003), leading productivity to follow a second-order Markov …

share of outliers. Using a "clean" sample without outliers the estimated productivity premium of firms that export to the …. -- Robust estimation ; panel data ; exporter productivity premium ; export destinations …-econometric studies for 16 different countries on the relationship between export destination and firm performance. (2) It reports …

their export status and provides an explanation for the lackluster average productivity performance of exporting plants … the economic environment and their contributions to aggregate productivity growth in the period following the … implementation of the North American Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In all industries, an overwhelming share of aggregate productivity …

productivity in Germany. This association increases with firm size. Comparison to a similar survey in the US indicates that the … at least in part to blame for the differences in aggregate productivity between Germany and the US. …

performance, and total factor productivity. Second, we investigate whether and how such effects are transmitted to the workers, in …