role in increasing productivity growth in U.S. manufacturing. Contemporaneous levels of exports and productivity are indeed … positively correlated across manufacturing industries. However, tests on industry data show causality from productivity to … exporting but not the reverse. While exporting plants have substantially higher productivity levels, we find no evidence that …

role in increasing productivity growth in U.S. manufacturing. Contemporaneous levels of exports and productivity are indeed … positively correlated across manufacturing industries. However, tests on industry data show causality from productivity to … exporting but not the reverse. While exporting plants have substantially higher productivity levels, we find no evidence that …

role in increasing productivity growth in U.S. manufacturing. Contemporaneous levels of exports and productivity are indeed … positively correlated across manufacturing industries. However, tests on industry data show causality from productivity to … exporting but not the reverse. While exporting plants have substantially higher productivity levels, we find no evidence that …

liberalization. Firm productivity in a given product is modeled as a combination of firm-level "ability" and firm …-level ability raises a firm's productivity across all products, which induces a positive correlation between a firm's intensive … (output per product) and extensive (number of products) margins. Trade liberalization fosters productivity growth within and …

and countries. Firms' export decisions depend on a combination of firm “productivity” and firm-product-country “consumer … export a wider range of products to a larger set of countries than lower-productivity firms. Trade liberalization induces … tastes,' both of which are stochastic and unknown prior to the payment of a sunk cost of entry. Higher-productivity firms …

margins of trade and firm productivity. We employ proxies for trade costs to quantify the extensive and intensive margin … greater productivity and value-added, more employees and exported products. Across firms, productivity is positively … associated with firm exports. More productive firms export more products to more countries and have higher average product …