. We further show that selection also applies to number of products traded. Both export and import productivity premiums …’ participation in international trade also pertain to a small open economy. We provide robust evidence of selection operating from … market to market which is consistent with that low productive firms are confined to markets with low productivity thresholds …

This paper examines the decision to export and the share of exports to developed markets of Russian manufacturers by … hinder manufacturing exporting. As in other countries, specific exporting experience is the main determinant of both export … status and destination. On the other hand, firm features, with the exception of size, are irrelevant for export status, while …

) heterogeneous firm framework. The focus is on liberalisation-induced productivity and profitability consequences for international … and regional banks in seven European countries during the 1988 to 2003 period. Confirming higher productivity and … between higher international market participation and bank productivity. It also provides evidence for an increase in …

-term performance of the firms after such deals with the help of ratio analysis, profit structure, liquidity structure by comparing pre …-merger and post-merger related data; Short-term performance of M&A deals has been studied with the help of share price movement …

An increasing body of evidence indicates that an important share of aggregate productivity growth, in both developed … and developing countries, arises from the reallocation of resources across plants of different productivity levels. New … trade models with heterogeneous firms (Bernard et al., 2003; Melitz, 2003) suggest that international trade plays an …

important policy implications regarding the role of trade reform in boosting aggregate productivity, particularly in industries …Recent trade models with heterogeneous firms (Bernard et al., 2003 and Melitz, 2003) show how lower trade costs can … spur aggregate productivity by forcing lower productivity firms out of the market, cutting off the lower tail of the …

recent models of multi-product heterogeneous firms and trade is provided. …

While Germany has a very open, export-oriented manufacturing sector, to date there has been little or no research on … the role of exporting in German firm performance. This paper documents the significant differences between exporters and …

Using confidential microdata from the US Census, we find that the fraction of manufacturing plants that export rose … instead argue that changes in other factors that determine export status are sufficient to explain these trends. …

that the productivity distribution of foreign firms operating in Japan dominates that of Japanese multinationals, which …