This paper contributes to the literature by comparing the productivity distribution for firms with various numbers of … goods. It applies a non-parametric test for first-order stochastic dominance of one productivity distribution over another … imported from, the higher is the productivity of the firms - not only on average, but over the whole productivity distribution …

Diese Studie versucht zu einem besseren Verständnis von export performance und technologischer Leistungsfähigkeit …

manufacturing firms. First, there is a negative correlation between firms' productivity and their export share to low …-income destinations. Second, there is a negative correlation between firms' innovation activity and their export share to low … found between the share of exports to lowincome countries and either productivity or R&D intensity is never in line with the …

and productivity hold in the years before the export start, which indicates self-selection into exporting of more …This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firms that (start to) export … relationship between profitability and starting to export is found. -- Business services firms ; exports ; self-selection ; France …

and productivity hold in the years before the export start, which indicates self-selection into exporting of more …This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firms that (start to) export … relationship between profitability and starting to export is found. …

this exporter productivity premium is due to extra costs of exporting that can be covered only by more productive firms … fixed-effects estimator, no such exporter productivity premium is found for firms from manufacturing and services industries … systematically investigate the role of outliers and unobserved firm heterogeneity for estimates of the exporter productivity premium …