The impact of firm level productivity heterogeneity on export market entry has been the subject of theoretical … productivity, notwithstanding the fact that theory also points up links between trade and industry level productivity. This paper … decomposes productivity growth in Sweden into its various components and links exporting to net entry and reallocation effects …

estimates of the productivity premium of German firms exporting to the Euro-zone and beyond, controlling for unobserved time … observations, or outliers. The paper shows that estimates of the exporter productivity premium by destination are driven by a small … share of outliers. Using a "clean" sample without outliers the estimated productivity premium of firms that export to the …

The study aims at describing productivity growth in the manufacturing sector for a selected panel of five European … countries using firm-level data. The paper explores the empirical regularities of firm productivity distribution across … countries. In particular, we assess the degree of persistence of firm relative productivity and consider its effect on aggregate …