-distributed firm productivity and fixed costs of exporting, predicts that, conditional on the fixed costs of exporting, all variation … lognormal distribution of firm productivity allows the Melitz model to successfully match the role of the intensive margin … methods and the EDD, a generalized Melitz model with a joint lognormal distribution for firm productivity, fixed costs and …

The empirical evidence on within firm productivity improvements from exports has largely been understated because the … measures of revenue productivity used do not account for pricing heterogeneity across firms. Using a panel of Indian firms, the … analysis in this paper controls for firm variation in prices and uses proxy methods to retrieve measures of productivity that …

This paper examines productivity dynamics and drivers for Pakistani firms listed in the stock exchange (publicly listed …, to assess their impact on productivity downstream. The paper presents three main findings. First, the productivity of … productive firms, and their productivity grows after being acquired. Exporters tend to exhibit productivity growth after becoming …

Over the past decades, East Asia and Pacific's productivity has been gradually catching up with the frontier (the … United States), with China leading the pack. Productivity growth has been driven by sustained within-sector productivity … growth. Reallocation of labor to sectors with higher productivity, such as industry and services, also contributed to …