The empirical evidence on within firm productivity improvements from exports has largely been understated because the … 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 …

disaggregated firm-level customs transaction data for imports and exports, the paper documents the progressive retreat of Argentine … 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 …

that one way things can get messy is via squandering new wealth, based on future resource revenues, on arms imports. In the … five years following a giant oil or gas discovery, arms imports increase by 25 percent. The effect is even larger, at 51 …

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 … estimator to investigate how unpredictability in border clearance times for imports affects manufacturing firms' entry, exit …