contribution of the number of firm-products, their average attributes (quality and efficiency) and heterogeneity around the mean … variation in sales, while the remaining part is equally accounted for by average attributes and their dispersion. Quality is the … distribution of firms' sales, especially due to heterogeneity in quality. These countries also tend to be more likely to host …

contribution of the number of firm-products, their average attributes (quality and efficiency) and heterogeneity around the mean … variation in sales, while the remaining part is equally accounted for by average attributes and their dispersion. Quality is the … distribution of firms’ sales, especially due to heterogeneity in quality. These countries also tend to be more likely to host …

This paper provides a direct test of how fixed export costs and productivity jointly determine firm-level export …, while those with higher productivity export more. These outcomes are the foundation of the widely-used sorting mechanism in … the trade models with firm heterogeneity. A particular and novel finding is that high-productivity nonexporters face …

. Globalization is shown to induce heterogeneous responses across firms in terms of scope and productivity, some of which are …

. Globalization is shown to induce heterogeneous responses across firms in terms of scope and productivity, some of which are …

Following along the lines of a growing literature on the causal link between exporting and productivity this paper … addition to good firms self-selecting into exports and multinational production exporting (multinational production) further … conclusive evidence of learning-by-exporting. Namely, although new exporters experienced a surge in productivity in the initial …

: aggregate exports are disproportionally driven by few multi-buyers exporters; and each multi-buyer exporter's foreign sales of …