-distributed firm productivity and fixed costs of exporting, predicts that, conditional on the fixed costs of exporting, all variation … lognormal distribution of firm productivity allows the Melitz model to successfully match the role of the intensive margin … methods and the EDD, a generalized Melitz model with a joint lognormal distribution for firm productivity, fixed costs and …

productivity, which reinforces the importance of accounting for firm export status to study the evolution of productivity …This paper explores the link between exports and total factor productivity in Brazilian manufacturing firms over the … significantly, but with stagnant aggregate growth in total factor productivity. The paper first estimates firm-level total factor …

This paper evaluates the role of export destinations on productivity, employment, and wages of Turkish firms by … comparing the performance of firms that export to low-income destinations and high-income destinations with firms that do not … export. A combination of propensity score matching and difference-in-differences methods are employed on a rich set of firm …

rates of product innovation and experimentation and a low ability of the Pakistani export sector to enter into new higher …