(and optimize their exporting) than their male peers. Although reduced access to finance seriously constrains the exports … of female entrepreneurs, this limitation does not explain their relative inability to leverage value from exports …

-setting power) and (iii) revenue productivity. We apply this framework to analyze whether the pricing behavior of firms in product …

respect to local productivity shocks are significantly higher with a lower housing share. Moreover, simple ex-ante observable …

and productivity hold in the years before the export start, which indicates self-selection into exporting of more …

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 …

-conflict reconstruction in the former Yugoslavia, using exports as outcome. Using confidential social security data to capture intensity of … elasticity of exports to return migration between 0.08 to 0.24. Our results are stronger in knowledge-intensive industries and …

How do immigrants promote exports? To answer this question we propose a unified empirical framework allowing to … transaction costs, and the productivity shifts arising from migrationinduced knowledge diffusion and increased workforce diversity …

Although market concentration is one of the main impediments to productivity growth globally, data constraints have … the effects of local industry concentration on productivity. The main results show that a decline by 10 points in the … factor productivity of revenue. Local industry concentration also has heterogeneous effects on productivity across industries …

face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the average productivity of survivors increases. These pro … confirmed in an empirical study of the German clothing industry. -- International trade ; firm heterogeneity ; productivity …

understand the link between institutions and an economy's productivity distribution. -- intra-industry trade ; heterogeneous …