differ in their export market exposure. Simulating the introduction of trade tariffs we find a substantial reduction in firms … product and process innovation among exporting firms and these innovations have a larger impact on productivity improvement in … export market sales. As a result, exporting firms have a higher payoff from R&D investment, invest in R&D more frequently …

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

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 …

frontier and that the frontier will move out faster. In particular, plants that export will achieve a higher productivity level … increase their productivity advantage after entry into the export market. While the first finding can be explained by selection …Proponents of trade liberalization argue that it will force firms to produce closer to the production possibility …

detailed customs and firm-product-level data from Portugal. We use exchange-rate movements as a source of variation in export …

A growing body of empirical work has documented the superior performance characteristics" of exporting plants and firms … paper asks whether good" firms become exporters or whether exporting improves firm performance. The evidence is quite" clear …

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 …

producers in Egypt. Combined with detailed survey data, we causally identify the impact of exporting on firm performance … efficiency. First, treatment firms have higher productivity and quality after controlling for rug specifications. Second, when …

This paper examines the decision to enter the export market by German firms. While exports have played an important … role in recent German business cycle movements, little is known about the export supply response of German firms. This … paper presents a dynamic model of the export decision by a profit-maximizing firm. Using a panel of German manufacturing …