. We further show that selection also applies to number of products traded. Both export and import productivity premiums …’ participation in international trade also pertain to a small open economy. We provide robust evidence of selection operating from … market to market which is consistent with that low productive firms are confined to markets with low productivity thresholds …

learning-by-exporting effects in enterprises. We find export destination matters: the performance characteristics of …Recent research has sought to explore whether exporting enterprises have superior performance characteristics relative … to non-exporters, and whether such superiority is associated with performance pre- and/or post- exporting. This paper …

extends existing research by examining the influence of export market destination on firm performance. It explores these … matters: the performance characteristics of enterprises that export globally differ from those that export locally. …Recent research has sought to explore whether exporting enterprises have superior performance characteristics relative …

deepen increasingly issues about the relationship between international trade and economic growth. More in particular, the … attention is increasingly focusing on the link between exporting and firm performance, acknowledging the extreme relevance of … 'firm heterogeneity'. This paper investigates empirically the exporting-productivity linkage in the Italian manufacturing …

This paper examines the decision to export and the share of exports to developed markets of Russian manufacturers by … hinder manufacturing exporting. As in other countries, specific exporting experience is the main determinant of both export … status and destination. On the other hand, firm features, with the exception of size, are irrelevant for export status, while …

investigate the relationship between exports and productivity. Our overall results are in line with the big picture that is by now … controlled for, and these exporter productivity premia tend to increase with the share of exports in total sales; there is strong … evidence in favour of self-selection of more productive firms into export markets, but nearly no evidence in favour of the …

) heterogeneous firm framework. The focus is on liberalisation-induced productivity and profitability consequences for international … and regional banks in seven European countries during the 1988 to 2003 period. Confirming higher productivity and … between higher international market participation and bank productivity. It also provides evidence for an increase in …

-term performance of the firms after such deals with the help of ratio analysis, profit structure, liquidity structure by comparing pre …-merger and post-merger related data; Short-term performance of M&A deals has been studied with the help of share price movement …

An increasing body of evidence indicates that an important share of aggregate productivity growth, in both developed … and developing countries, arises from the reallocation of resources across plants of different productivity levels. New … trade models with heterogeneous firms (Bernard et al., 2003; Melitz, 2003) suggest that international trade plays an …