The impact of firm level productivity heterogeneity on export market entry has been the subject of theoretical innovation and extensive empirical scrutiny in recent years. The latter has focused on falling trade costs and firm level productivity, notwithstanding the fact that theory also points...

This FIW Special - International Economics contains a policy report on the relationship between trade and productivity in the European Economy. The report is related to the 15th FIW-Workshop on the same topic which took place in Vienna on the 16th of March, 2012.