productivity (TFP) at firm level using a flexible Levinsohn-Petrin semiparametric method, which allows us to address the …International trade has been stated as one of the most important mean of improving firms' productivity, being the … contribute to local firm's productivity performance by incorporating better inputs in their production processes. This paper …

generating endogenous changes in local productivity. In this paper, we document and quantify the importance of this channel by … delays in the construction of highways, we empirically show that productivity grows in places with better transportation … total factor productivity. Then, by calibrating our model on census data between 1998 and 2018, we find that new highways …

Export is an important contributor to growth with numerous direct and indirect macroeconomic benefits. Moreover, firms …

across 16 countries in Latin America. Leveraging information on export destinations, as well as exchange rate and price data …

While many studies explain the correlation between firm-level productivity and export status entirely by better firms … to new clients. We show that small firms with a lot of outstanding trade credit expand sales the most following export … provinces with weaker institutions. The same type of firms also enjoy the largest productivity gains immediately following …

firms' export performance. Drawing on Porter hypothesis and firm heterogeneity theory, we adopt a structural model where … first we estimate the impact of green investment strategies on the level of productive efficiency (TFP), and second we … assess whether induced productivity influences the extensive and intensive margin of exports. Relying on a rich firm …

, we find that increased competition in the Peruvian exporting firms main export markets had a negative effect on …

, procompetitive effect of trade on total factor productivity (TFP). However, as in the 1990s, these gains do not seem to have been …This paper uses the sudden surge in Chinese competition faced by Brazil's manufacturers in the 2000s to revisit the … findings from the literature on how productivity, innovation, and employment were impacted by the Great Liberalizationa period …

This paper studies firms' decisions to export and invest in R&D and their effects on employment growth and labor flows …