on subsequent firm level productivity. These productivity effects are shown to be larger than those accruing to firms who … enter into ordinary exporting. Interestingly, the estimation of quantile treatment effects shows that the positive effects … of the productivity variable. We also find that export processors gain more when entering the industrialised North rather …

activity or fixed costs to maintain that activity, anticipating that the decision would impact its future productivity and … productivity. Then, I investigate the impact of trade liberalization and government subsidy policies on firms’ importing and … rates and generates a modest increase in mean productivity. Subsidizing either the sunk costs or the fixed costs of one …