of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm …'s innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data which provides direct measures for innovations and firm … export and hence to catch up to the technological frontiers. This negative effect is amplified as financial constraints force …

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 …

understand the link between institutions and an economy's productivity distribution …

improve the business conditions in one country have negative productivity and welfare effects on the trading partner. Second …

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

productive than firms that only sell on the national market. This positive exporter productivity premium shows up in a large … firm fixed effects. These studies test for a difference in productivity between exporters and non-exporters at the … conditional mean of the productivity distribution. However, if firms are heterogeneous, it is possible that the size of the …

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 …

plants that start to export. We show that the exporter wage premium does already exist in the years before firms start to … export, and that it does not increase in the following years. Higher wages in exporting firms are thus due to self …-selection of more productive, better paying firms into export markets; they are not caused by export activities …

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 …