African manufacturing exports. The degree of market diversification, measured by the number of export destinations, is highly … correlated with export intensity at the firm level, and both embody strong scale effects. Technological factors, such as new … vintage capital and Internet access, which improve production efficiency and lower export costs, show strong effects on the …

Using firm and industry data, we establish two facts: (i) Uncertainty about demand conditions not only reduces export … sales and exporting probabilities but also makes exports less sensitive to trade policy; (ii) the most productive exporters … regularities by developing a new firmbased trade model wherein managers are risk averse. Higher volatility induces the reallocation …

I develop and estimate a model of export dynamics featuring self-discovery that accounts well for new exporter dynamics …: (a) continuation rates that are increasing with tenure, and (b) growth rates of export sales that are decreasing with … discovery stage lasts as long as this option value is positive. I use the model to study the impact of export promotion policies …

EPPs across sectors, and hence across countries, can be explained by the variation in productivity dispersion, trade costs …Why is it that exporter productivity premia (EPP) differ so widely in size? We take this question to the theory and to … the data. We derive the sectoral EPP in a standard heterogeneous firms trade model and apply the insights from the model …

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 …

This paper investigates the relation between firms' productivity and exporting behavior in presence of export … productivity-sorting prediction according to which domestic firms are less efficient than those resorting to an export intermediary …, while the latter are less productive than producers which export directly. Our novel finding is that firms' productivity has …

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

and society. With a new and comprehensive data set on manufacturing plants, I investigate the exporter productivity … premium of female-run firms in Germany. The results show that female-run firms gain a higher exporter-productivity premium than …