that includes information on destinations and firm characteristics such as productivity. We find a number of interesting … deviations from the model’s predictions including a high degree of unpredictable idiosyncratic participation in export markets by … firms, a relatively weak positive correlation between the extent of export participation and export sales, and a limited …

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 … improvements are found to be highly contingent on export status, with import status being unimportant. The key finding of the paper …

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 …

at the beginning of the development process. The results are robust to the measurement of export variety, the inclusion …This paper addresses the lack of connection between theory and empirics in most export diversification - economic … development studies. We provide a Ricardian-based theoretical explanation of countries' relative export variety as a function of …

This paper investigates the effect of competition in both the domestic and foreign markets on firm productivity and … export decisions using firm level data from 139 countries. Using a Sample Selection Endogenous Treatment (SSET) Poisson model … increases firms' propensity to export. However, firms' export intensity, i.e. how much they export, is not directly influenced …