causal effects on product quality, production efficiency, and exports. Poor management practices may thus hinder trade and …We present a heterogeneous-firm model in which management ability increases both pro- duction efficiency and product … quality. Combining six micro-datasets on management practices, production and trade in Chinese and American firms, we find …

causal effects on product quality, production efficiency, and exports. Poor management practices may thus hinder trade and …We present a heterogeneous-firm model in which management ability increases both production efficiency and product … quality. Combining six micro-datasets on management practices, production and trade in Chinese and American firms, we find …

study reports that these low-productivity exporters are not marginal exporters defined according to the share of exports in … exports is much higher among exporters from the lower end of the productivity distribution than among highly productive …-exporters. However, many firms from the lower end of the productivity distribution are exporters. Germany is a case in point. A recent …

separates taste from quality and productivity (TFPQ) at the firm-product level. Export data by destination countries allow us to … revenue. Productivity (TFPQ) differences between firm-products become more prominent than taste in explaining export success …