to firm innovative performance and to its productivity. The impacts of adoption of the four surveyed KM practices on firm … innovative and productivity performance are not completely accounted by firm size, industry, research & development (R&D) efforts …

mismatches are associated with significant productivity losses …

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 …

that export growth leads to increases firm productivity and other firm performance measures. Consistent with "earning …-by-exporting", 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 …

efficiency. First, treatment firms have higher productivity and quality after controlling for rug specifications. Second, when …

. Moreover, this negative impact is concentrated on low-productivity firms. By contrast, we find a positive effect - although …

increased competition from demand shocks in export markets - and the induced product mix reallocations - induce productivity …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 …

competitive barriers increase productivity to Western levels …

productivity; high natural and policy barriers to trade. Focusing on the latter explanations, policy makers have long advocated a …

We formalize the notion that GATT exceptions such as antidumping and escape clause actions can act as insurance for … all, but rather might entail an export tax. We also show that a tax cum subsidy policy (i.e., taxing all sectors in order …