that firms that both export and import are the most productive, followed by importing-, exporting-only firms and nontraders … the extensive margin of imports, but not of exports and the initial condition status is also only relevant for the import …

that firms that both export and import are the most productive, followed by importing-, exporting-only firms and non … exports and the initial condition status is also only relevant for the import side. Similar outcomes are obtained for the …

robot adoption on the firm level export performance consists on combining propensity score matching (PSM) and difference in … differences (DID) techniques. The results show that firms that start to use robots experience a sharp increase in their export … probability, export sales and share of exports in total output and this result is robust to a wide array of checks. Robot adoption …