Amendolagine, Vito; Capolupo, Rosa; Petragallo, Nadia - In: Aussenwirtschaft 66 (2011) 2, pp. 151-180
This paper explores the two competing hypotheses of self-selection and learning by exporting across different Italian manufacturing firms.Using matched sampling techniques that control for selection bias,we estimate whether new export-oriented firms aremore efficient compared to domestic firms...