Cirera, Xavier; Lederman, Daniel; Máñez, Juan A.; … - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 9 (2015) 2015-22, pp. 1-31
This paper explores the link between exports and total factor productivity (TFP) in Brazilian manufacturing firms over … exports significantly, but with stagnant aggregate TFP growth. The authors first estimate firm-level TFP under alternative …). Finally, they test whether exporting boosts firms TFP growth (learning-by-exporting hypothesis) using matching techniques, to …