This paper provides new evidence on the link between finance and firm-level productivity focusing on the case of … find that financial constraints do not lower productivity for most sectors with the exception of R&D, where the dampening … effect of financial constraints on productivity is remarkably large. These results are robust to a variety of sensitivity …

investigate the relationship between exports and productivity. Our overall results are in line with the big picture that is by now … controlled for, and these exporter productivity premia tend to increase with the share of exports in total sales; there is strong … government report higher productivity premia. However, the level of development per se does not appear to be an explanation for …

probability to stop exporting during protection compared to unprotected firms. Finally, we find that the productivity of exporters …

productivity and its decision to exports and/or invest in foreign affiliate, namely the heterogeneity of foreign markets … markets served by individual firm increases with firm's productivity level. We show that firms enter additional export markets … always more productive than firms supplying only domestic market. Also, we confirm a conjecture that higher productivity …

bilateral trade flows. Our tests are based on NACE 2-digit industry aggregation of productivity and of bilateral trade flows … productivity rankings and bilateral sectoral exports-to-imports ratio rankings for each of 21 x 20 country pairs. We find that the … productivity nor by the variation in changes of capital-to-labor ratios. Furthfirmore, we find quite a strong autoregressive impact …

firm productivity and export decision are closely related to its innovation ac- tivity. Product innovation may play a … exporting and conesequently from exporting to process innovation and reverse productivity improvements. Using detailed mi …

, productivity, and growth, and has recently become the subject of intensive research. We explore the importance of innovation …

exporting and productivity shows that exporters on average are more efficient than nonexporters. If that is the case we may also …

Following along the lines of a growing literature on the causal link between export- ing and productivity this paper … new exporters experienced a surge in productivity in the initial year of exports the effect dissipates as soon as the …

spill over to domestic industries and increase their productivity. While the empirical studies have cast doubt on the … productivity level. The evidence is suggestive of both high productivity firms having a higher probability of supplying …