in productivity gains from additional varieties of services, the analysis finds that real wages increase across all …

linking this to productivity, which turns out to be important. The paper also provides an example of modeling productivity …

The authors investigate the relationship between the productivity of African manufacturing firms and their access to … to calculate the total factor productivity of firms. The Enterprise Surveys also contain unique measures of firms' access … firm productivity and service performance in all three services sectors analyzed. The authors thus provide support for the …

of export volumes as well as export surges, that is, the periods of rapid sustained export growth. It asks whether the … determinants of export growth rates and export surges differ between merchandise, traditional services, and modern services and … whether developing countries are different. It confirm the importance of the real exchange rate for export growth. The paper …

that productivity, foreign affiliates sales, and trade and investment in services may hold for interdependence and cross …

Surveys of export promotion agencies suggest that that they tend to focus on helping firms become exporters as a means … to stimulate aggregate export growth. But the existing empirical evidence has paid little attention to the role of export … from seven Latin American countries during the period 2006-2010. The results suggest that export promotion encourages …

Entering and successfully surviving in export markets is a costly process for firms. The process involves learning … exports. The results suggest spillovers from tourism into merchandise export performance and diversification and would imply … that there are gains from cooperation between tourism and export promotion agencies …

In this paper, the effect of proximity to multinational exporters on the creation of new export linkages (the extensive … begin exporting new varieties to new markets is shown to respond positively to the export activity of neighboring foreign … sizable. The marginal impact of product-country-specific foreign export spillovers is five times as large as the effect of a …

-side constraints to export performance at the firm level in Ecuador. To correct for the non-random truncation problems, they use the … Heckman selection model to estimate the probability of exporting (export propensity) and the share of total sales that are … exported (export intensity) by Ecuadorian firms. They develop a baseline model with 12 independent variables divided into three …

-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 …