This paper explores the link between exports and total factor productivity (TFP) in Brazilian manufacturing firms over … exports significantly, but with stagnant aggregate TFP growth. The authors first estimate firm-level TFP under alternative … assumptions (exogenous and endogenous law of motion for productivity) following Wooldridge's (On estimating firm-level production …

This paper explores the link between exports and total factor productivity (TFP) for Brazilian manufacturing firms over … the period 2000-2008, both under the assumption of an exogenous or an endogenous law of motion for productivity. The …, to control for the possibility that selection into exports may not be a random process. Their results confirm the self …

Intense US-China commercial rivalry is quantified in this paper with novel non-parametric relative resistance … sufficient statistics. The accounting method minimizes the demand specification error variance in revealed resistances. China …'s manufacturing seller incidence falls (seller price rises) 7.6% yearly as China's sales share quadruples over 2000-14. US seller …

&D investment and firm employment, and to address important econometric issues, which is not possible in the standard estimation …

estimation approach used in the previous literature. Our results suggest that modest innovators do not create and may even …