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 …

share of outliers. Using a "clean" sample without outliers the estimated productivity premium of firms that export to the …-econometric studies for 16 different countries on the relationship between export destination and firm performance. (2) It reports … estimates of the productivity premium of German firms exporting to the Euro-zone and beyond, controlling for unobserved time …

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 …

status and the growth of its labour productivity, using the firms' export status as a binary treatment variable and comparing …'s export-sales ratio and its labour productivity growth rate. We find that there is a causal effect of firms' export activities … the other hand, previous empirical studies show that exporting does not necessarily improve productivity. One possible …

performance indicators, productivity and profitability …

innovation on firm survival and firm productivity, which constitute the two main channels through which innovation drives growth … productivity. Secondly, we draw attention to recent modeling and estimation effort that reveals novel sources of heterogeneity, non …-linearity and volatility in the gains from R&D/innovation, particularly in terms of its effects on firm survival and productivity …

and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … level surveys performed by the Statistical Offices. Our micro-econometric analysis confirms previous findings of concave age-productivity … the ceteris paribus lower level of productivity in firms with a higher share of female employees does not go hand in hand …

between firm characteristics and export activities, demonstrating the decisive role of human capital intensity for exporting … heterogeneous firms that emphasises the role of productivity for exporting. It shows that productivity is important for exporting as … is hypothesized in the formal theoretical models, but that contrary to the assumption made in these models productivity …