Ogawa, Kazuo; Saito, Mika; Tokutsu, Ichiro - 2012
panel data of Japanese exporting firms, we examine the sources of the export surge during this period. One view argues that … supply factors such as productivity gains, materialized after long-fought restructuring efforts during the lost decade …. Estimating the firm-level export function allows us to assess the relative importance of these demand and supply fact …