This paper examines the relationship between exports, productivity, and technological innovation. It first analyzes the … causality between the firms’ export behavior and productivity. Unlike other papers using a similar methodology, our results show … no evidence of learning by exporting. In fact, although once the firms begin exporting total productivity increases by …

even for risk neutral multinationals, as their profit function is non-linear due to price and productivity effects. For … of productivity shocks in an emerging market producing the intermediate inputs reduces the multinationals' expected … in each country to productivity shocks, channeling the average employment from the more to the less volatile location …