Does entry into the export market enhance firms' productivity? In this paper, we estimate the instantaneous and long …-run effects of exporting on the productivity of Chinese manufacturing firms during 2001 and 2007. We argue that pre-export R … propensity score matching in our estimation, we find that: (1) On average, starting to export has an instantaneous effect in …

driven by firms that engage only in export processing – the activity of assembling tariff exempted imported inputs into final … export value, are engaged in processing trade only. These firms are 4% to 30% less productive than non-exporters. For other …

driven by the presence of firms that engage in export processing – the activity of assembling tariff exempted imported inputs … total export value, are engaged in processing trade only. These firms are 4% to 30% less productive than non …

has very different productivity effects for firms with different pre‐export R&D status. It has large and lasting … productivity effects for firms with pre‐export R&D, while it has little effects for firms without pre‐export R&D. Furthermore, the … effect of exporting increases with the number of years of pre‐export R&D investment …

increased its imported inputs, boosting Chinese firms' productivity and their export values and varieties. Lower input tariffs … also reduced Chinese export prices to the U.S. market. In contrast, PNTR had no effect on Chinese productivity or export … prices, but did increase Chinese entry into the U.S. export market. We find that at least two-thirds of the China WTO effect …