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 …

and the value of CAT exports responds differently to variation in firm productivity and trade costs than does the export … relationship between the margins of trade and firm productivity, both across firms and within firms over time. In addition, we … export data at the firm-product level, we discover new and, heretofore, unknown facts about multi-product manufacturing …

and the value of CAT exports responds differently to variation in firm productivity and trade costs than does the export … relationship between the margins of trade and firm productivity, both across firms and within firms over time. In addition, we … export data at the firm-product level, we discover new and, heretofore, unknown facts about multi-product manufacturing …

finding is that manufacturing shows little evidence of either labor productivity or multifactor productivity convergence … convergence results, the paper introduces a new measure of multifactor productivity which avoids many problems inherent to … traditional measures of total factor productivity when comparing productivity levels. The lack of convergence in manufacturing is …

predate entry into the export market. We find no positive effects on employment, wage or productivity growth after entry. Our …While Germany has a very open, export-oriented manufacturing sector, to date there has been little or no research on …