that both are simultaneously determined by countries' capabilities i.e. by countries' productivity and quality levels for … relationship between a country's export mix and its wage (GDP per capita). We show that this non-monotonicity permeates the 1980 … and (2) for the poorest third of countries, changes in export mix substantially over-predict growth in GDP per capita …

export entry. I estimate my model on standard firm-level data and find substantial additional productivity gains from …Learning by exporting refers to the mechanism whereby firms improve their performance (productivity) after entering … export markets. Although this mechanism is often mentioned in policy documents, a significant share of econometric studies …

-distributed firm productivity, which has become a tractable benchmark. This benchmark model predicts that, conditional on the fixed …-level productivity, fixed costs and demand shifters, and use "exact hat algebra" to quantify the effects of a decline in trade costs on …

that export growth leads to increases firm productivity and other firm performance measures. Consistent with quot …;earning-by-exportingquot;, the productivity impact of export growth is greater when firms export to more developed countries …We ask how export demand shocks associated with the Asian financial crisis affected Chinese exporters. We construct …

Much more than comparative advantage and free markets have been at play in shaping China's export success. Government … have developed in their absence. As a result, China has ended up with an export basket that is significantly more …

that export and invest in Ramp;D and/or worker training have significantly higher future productivity than firms that only … export. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that export experience is an important source of productivity …This paper examines two potential channels of knowledge acquisition that underlie firm productivity growth in the …

productivity heterogeneity. In this model, a firm enters a market if it makes profits by reaching a single consumer there and pays …, Kortum and Kramarz, in particular the higher sales in France of firms that choose to export to more destinations. The model … predicts that most firms do not export, and that a large proportion of firms that export in particular markets do so in small …

This paper characterizes the dynamic empirical properties of country export capabilities in order to inform modelling … heavy-tailed distribution of industry export capabilities that is approximately log normal and whose shape is stable across … productivities. We establish that mean reversion in export capability, rather than indicative of convergence in productivities or …

differ by export mode. We find that demand and productivity evolve more favorably under direct exporting, though the fixed …This paper shows that how firms export (directly or indirectly via intermediaries) matters. We develop and estimate a … the WTO, its exports and export participation would have been 30 and 37 percent lower respectively …

competition from demand shocks in export markets – and the induced product mix reallocations – induce productivity changes within …We document how demand shocks in export markets lead French multi-product exporters to re-allocate the mix of products … sold in those destinations. In response to positive demand shocks, those French firms skew their export sales towards their …