trade theories treat important forces such as the distribution of productivity within the economy as exogenous. We argue … instead that the productivity allocation is endogenous and counter-balances factor-proportion differentials be- tween …

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 …

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 … the level of technology and country size assessed with respect to the rest of the world. Relative export diversification …

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 …