market to market which is consistent with that low productive firms are confined to markets with low productivity thresholds …. We further show that selection also applies to number of products traded. Both export and import productivity premiums …

an analysis of the impact of exporting on productivity and innovation in SMEs. The contribution of this work lies mainly …

the firm and to the domestic market enhances firms´ productivity and sales. In the same way, innovation in management and … marketing boosts firms´ productivity and sales. However, contrary to theoretical predictions, the production of goods and …

This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly … conditional mean of labor productivity: through an observed binary indicator, an observed intensity variable or through the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …

I examine the effect of reducing export tariffs on the productivity of domestic suppliers of exporting firms. Using a …) increases the productivity of intermediate input suppliers by 1.5 percent. The increase in productivity among domestic suppliers … accounts for 22.5 percent of aggregate productivity gains. I find that tariff cuts induce firms to acquire new machinery and …

productivity estimates through semi-parametric techniques, we find that changes in domestic firms’ TFP are positively related to …