-Griliches estimation procedure will tend to overestimate exporting firm markups and underestimate their productivity. In addition, we … industries scale economies (and subsequently productivity) cannot be estimated independently of markups. We extend this basic … framework to show that, if exporting markups are smaller than those attainable in the domestic market, the Klette …

markets. We use a dynamic structural model to estimate retail productivity in a local market setting. In particular, we … provide a general strategy of how to measure the causal effect of entry of large stores on productivity separate from demand … in Sweden, we find that large entrants force low productivity stores to exit and surviving stores to increase their …

We study the incidence of offshoring, or trade in tasks, on firms' productivity and on manufacturing employment in a … has a Hick's neutral technological edge over the other, tasks in which the productivity edge more than offsets offshoring … costs get offshored, giving rise to global disintegration of the production process. Offshoring raises firms' productivity …

The study deals with the theory and measurement of competitiveness. The basic theory of firm implies that under … higher its unit costs are compared to the average unit costs of all firms in the market. Empirical measurement of the unit …

estimating total factor productivity at the establishment level, as well as of the existing techniques designed to overcome them … estimating productivity at the firm level, as well as to the endogeneity of product choice. Using data on single-product firms …

This paper analyses the potential for productivity spillovers from inward foreign direct investment using … competition in explaining productivity spillovers within industries. Our empirical analysis yields a number of important findings … unlikely to generate productivity spillovers, while spillovers increase in the capital intensity of foreign affiliates. Second …

three two-year intervals. We analyze the role of productivity, organisational and ownership structure, and of financial … characteristics for the decision to enter into and exit from foreign markets. High levels of productivity are documented to be … characteristic of companies deciding to engage in exporting or foreign direct investment (FDI). However, there does not seem to be a …

This paper investigates the link between exporting and importing activities and firm performance using a rich dataset … on Egyptian and Moroccan firms. We test the export premium, self-selection and learning-by-exporting hypotheses using a … effects on productivity changes. A differences-in-differences matching estimator is used to address the endogeneity bias of …

exporting and conesequently from exporting to process innovation and reverse productivity improvements. Using detailed mi …firm productivity and export decision are closely related to its innovation ac- tivity. Product innovation may play a … more important role in the decision to start exporting, while the decision for process innovation may be triggered by …