The paper explores the learning from trade hypothesis. Standardized research approach searchs for learning effects from trade focusing solely on exports, whereby firm's learning effects are accounted in the firm of total factor productivity improvements. In contrast, this papers defines a firm...

We establish a set of stylised facts for trade and trading firms in five market services sectors using comparable firm-level and services data from four EU countries. Our analysis shows that exports account for much lower shares of overall sales in the services sectors than in manufacturing. In...

The paper explores the learning from trade hypothesis. Standardized research approach searches for learning effects from trade focusing solely on exports, whereby firm's learning effects are accounted in the form of total factor productivity improvements. In contrast, this papers defines a firm...