Firm entry and exit play a crucial role in spurring a reallocation of resources across firms as tariffs are reduced. In the light of the substantial trade reforms implemented in the Philippines over the last two decades, the paper examines the impact of trade reforms on the exit of domestic...

Die Unternehmen des westdeutschen Verarbeitenden Gewerbes wollen nach den aktuellen Ergebnissen des ifo Investitionstests 2012 ihre Investitionen um 7% steigern. Für das vergangene Jahr ergaben die Meldungen der Firmen einen Zuwachs von 16%. Wie schon im letzten Jahr ist auch 2012 die...

Nach den aktuellen Ergebnissen des ifo Investitionstest wollen die Unternehmen des westdeutschen Verarbeitenden Gewerbes 2013 rund 4% mehr in neue Bauten und Ausrüstungsgüter investieren als im letzten Jahr. Für das Jahr 2012 ergaben die Meldungen der Erhebungsteilnehmer einen Anstieg von gut...

This paper combines a literature identifying the sources of productivity growth with a literature exploring differences between the characteristics of exporters and non-exporters to examine the contributions of exporters and non-exporters to aggregate labour productivity growth in the Irish...

We provide novel evidence on the micro-structure of international trade during the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent global recession exploring a rich firm-level data set from Spain. The analysis is motivated by the surprisingly strong export performance of Spain in the aftermath of the great...

This paper focuses on self-selection into trade by exporting and importing firms, and on the presence of differential variable and sunk costs between exporters and importers across different categories of imports. In addition the authors consider the role of intensive and extensive margins with...

Most of the empirical studies on the micro-level effects of exporting on productivity pay little attention to the potentially heterogeneous effects of the different modes of export market entry. We study how productivity of firms is affected by export entry simultaneously into several markets or...

Motivated by the longstanding interest of economists in understanding the nexus between firm productivity and export behavior, this paper develops a novel structural framework for control-function-based nonparametric identification of the gross production function and latent firm productivity in...

Firm entry and exit play a crucial role in spurring a reallocation of resources across firms as tariffs are reduced. In the light of the substantial trade reforms implemented in the Philippines over the last two decades, the paper examines the impact of trade reforms on the exit of domestic...