Mayer, Thierry; Melitz, Marc J.; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P. - 2016
reallocations - induce productivity changes within the firm. We then empirically test for this connection between the demand shocks … and the productivity of multi-product firms exporting to those destinations. We find that the effect of those demand … shocks on productivity are substantial - and explain an important share of aggregate productivity fluctuations for French …