We use a large dataset of Japanese manufacturing firms to compare the effects of export entry on productivity under … significantly higher ex-post productivity growth vis-à-vis non-entrants only during the period with favourable export market … conditions. We also find that such advantage in productivity growth is long lasting and is found only for entrants exporting to …

sector. I employ the Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS) test to compare the overall distribution of productivity by internationalized … status, after estimating the productivity premia of MNEs. The results indicate that MNEs are more productive than non-MNEs in …

This paper investigates the effect of exogenous entry barriers on productivity growth, using an R&D-based endogenous … for productivity growth. In order to confirm this point in quantitative terms, we estimate the model based on Lentz and …&D tax credits, we show quantitatively that both policies enhance the productivity growth, while there are qualitative …