percent higher productivity and generate about 50 percent more of their revenues from exports. The results presented in this … productivity and exports when essential elements are in place for its effective use, such as reliable electricity …. Using cross-country enterprise survey data, this paper shows that firms engaged in e-commerce have higher productivity and …

. Using the World Bank's Exporter Dynamics Database (EDD) featuring firm-level exports from 50 countries, we find that around … 50 percent of variation in exports is along the extensive margin-a quantitative victory for the Melitz framework. The … remaining 50 percent on the intensive margin (exports per exporting firm) contradicts a special case of Melitz with Pareto …

, if they enjoy a higher productivity, or if they benefit from foreign, domestic, or communication networks …

quality of tax administration affects firm performance for a large sample of firms in emerging market and developing economies …. We construct a novel, internationally comparable, and multidimensional index of tax administration quality (the TAQI … the productivity gap of small and young firms relative to larger and older firms, a result that is robust to controlling …

bilateral distance, tariffs, and the quality of their exports. Under the assumption that trade costs are both ad valorem and per … smaller in magnitude for higher quality exports. We find strong support for the predictions of the model using a unique data … set of Argentinean firm-level wine exports combined with experts wine ratings as a measure of quality …

This paper attempts to assess the incremental external financing requirements occasioned by changes in world food … on estimates of changes in food prices due to the Round obtained in previous studies, and on detailed data on food trade … by country and commodity, the present study shows that the increase in net food import costs are likely to be smaller …

This paper studies the relationship between trade policy and food prices. We show that, when individuals are loss … averse, governments may use trade policy to shield the domestic economy from large food price shocks. This creates a … complementarity between the price of food in international markets and trade policy. Specifically, unilateral actions give rise to a …

time, industry-level analysis suggests ample scope to raise productivity, especially in services where productivity gains …