anti-export bias and import substitution policies that sought unsuccessfully to develop the local industry. The paper shows … that exporters that import directly intermediate and capital goods have better export outcomes than other exporters … individually larger, with export value extremely concentrated in a few firms. Firm churning rates are disproportionately low and …

reflect physical productivity. Within-firm productivity changes from export entry are computed using a difference …-in-differences matching estimator. The findings show that, over a six-year period, the difference in productivity growth between export … international markets have largely been understated in the export-productivity empirical literature. This difference in productivity …

related to import processing times at the border could impact downstream export dynamics. Exploiting a rich data set built on … export performance, as neither the mean nor the median time to import impacts survival …, and survival in export markets. The analysis finds that uncertainty in the time to clear imported inputs impacts neither …