evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … taking differences along the conditional productivity distribution and firms with extreme values, or outliers, into account …) indicate that the productivity pecking order found in numerous studies using data for firms from manufacturing industries …

and productivity hold in the years before the export start, which indicates self-selection into exporting of more …

than non-exporting firms from the same 4-digit industry both on average and over the whole productivity distribution …. However, many firms from the lower end of this distribution are exporters. This paper report that these low-productivity …

manufacturing firms. First, there is a negative correlation between firms' productivity and their export share to low … found between the share of exports to lowincome countries and either productivity or R&D intensity is never in line with the …

document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the … systematically by testing for self-selection of more productive firms into importing, and for productivity-enhancing effects of … imports (learning-by-importing). We find a positive link between importing and productivity. From an empirical model with …