extensive and the intensive margins and the connection between exporting dynamics and plant-level total factor productivity … and account for a small share of gross, industry-level changes in exports, employment, output, and productivity. The … dynamics at the intensive margin is intense and heterogeneous. Plant mobility across deciles of export distribution has an …

American and Caribbean countries to analyze the magnitude and determinants of the productivity gap between large and SME firms … and to simulate of the impact on productivity of various policy scenarios …

-setting power) and (iii) revenue productivity. We apply this framework to analyze whether the pricing behavior of firms in product … find export status to be positively correlated with both product market power (markups) and market power consolidated on …

statistically significant and economically large effects of trade activities on profits. This demonstrates that any productivity …

forexogenous demand shocks by trade orientation, assuming that labour and capital are statevariables, and productivity follows a …

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 … profiles, which are consistent with human capital theory, and adds a new finding of a rather negative effect of age on firms …

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 …

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 …

document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the … systematically by testing for self-selection of more productive firms into importing, and for productivity-enhancing effects of … imports ('learning-by-importing'). We find a positive link between importing and productivity. From an empirical model with …

dispersion, and 2) the correlation between within-firm skill dispersion and productivity is positive in industries with higher …