externalities caused by domestic trade, focusing on externalities that arise through exports. Externalities from exports come from a …

patterns of firms within the samesector. Helpman, Melitz and Yeaple (2005) develop a model in whichinnate productivity … domestic market, better performers engage in export activities, and thetop firms establish foreign subsidiaries. Using German … us to compare productivity over the entire distribution.Our results show robust support for the prediction from theory. …

productive than firms that only sell on the national market. Thispositive exporter productivity premium shows up in a large … includingfirm fixed effects. These studies test for a difference in productivity between exporters andnon-exporters at the … conditional mean of the productivity distribution. However, if firms areheterogeneous, it is possible that the size of the premium …

evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign directinvestment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … thatthe productivity pecking order found in numerous studies using data for firms frommanufacturing industries – where the … firms with the highest productivity engage in fdi whilethe least productive firms serve the home market only and the …

first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivityand size of the export market for Germany, a leading …

This paper contributes to the flourishing literature on exports and productivity by using a unique newly available … productive than firms that continue to export in t. (H2) Firms that start to export in year t are less productive than firms that … export both in year t-1 and in year t. (H3) Firms from a cohort of export starters that still export in the last year of the …

presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and productivity in Germany, a leading actor on …

. Export sales of protected firms fall byalmost 8% compared to a relevant control group of unprotected firms. This effect more … find that the productivity ofexporters falls while that of non-exporters rises during antidumping protection. We offer a …

incentives, where individual effort imposes a negative externality on others,to their productivity under piece rates, where it … does not. We find that the productivity of theaverage worker is at least 50 percent higher under piece rates than under … workers does not affect productivity. Further analysis reveals thatworkers internalize the externality only when they can …