Exporting involves sunk costs, so some firms export whilst others do not. This proposition derives from a number of … export markets, but the evidence suggests that entry does not make them any more productive. This paper investigates …

Exporting involves sunk costs, so some firms export while others do not. This proposition derives from a number of … export markets; but entry does not make them any more productive. This paper investigates exporting and firm performance for …

China's policy of encouraging export processing has been the topic of much discussion in the academic literature and … economically and statistically significant positive causal effects of entering into export processing and ordinary export markets … of the productivity variable. We also find that export processors gain more when entering the industrialised North rather …