questions examined are whether exporting improves productivity (learning) and/or whether more productive plants export (self … pronounced at around the time of entry into and exit from the export market. Thus, positive and robust cross …

frontier and that the frontier will move out faster. In particular, plants that export will achieve a higher productivity level …. However intuitive the argument, empirical evidence is meager. This hypothesis is examined by calculating the effect of export … increase their productivity advantage after entry into the export market. While the first finding can be explained by selection …

the domestic and export market. Cohorts of new firms have lower average productivity than incumbents but are also a … the export market, are more productive than nonexporters. These patterns are consistent with the view that both the … domestic and export market sort out high productivity from low productivity firms and that the export market is a tougher …

markets affects the relative productivity of firms across the region. Firms with foreign ownership and firms that export are … firm characteristics available in the database to explore the sources of export firms' greater productivity. We argue that … it is in aiming for export markets that firms make decisions that raise productivity. It is not simply that more …