The impact of international trade on firm productivity is tested by accounting for firms' import as well as export … Difference in Differences, are used to calculate productivity improvements from entering into international trade. These … ; Productivity …

In this paper we directly test the proposed productivity hierarchy of direct, indirect and non-exporters using firm …-exporters. Furthermore, we test the underlying relationship between source-specific fixed trade costs and the average productivity … productivity premium of direct exporters only. While other studies have shown that exports by trade intermediaries increase with …

that includes information on destinations and firm characteristics such as productivity. We find a number of interesting … role for productivity in explaining firm exporting behavior. We illustrate the effect of firm heterogeneity on gravity …

is an outcome of two forces: a relative productivity change (technological progress) and a relative country size change …

This paper investigates the effect of competition in both the domestic and foreign markets on firm productivity and …