firm’s export profitability and increase the exporting firm’s understanding about the concept’s utility in handling foreign … are statistically significant in impacting the firm’s export profitability. Note: Full paper is uploaded with the …

We present some preliminary empirical results on impact of international certification on export behavior of Russian … use several different empirical models to examine the effect of certification on export activity and to control for … positive impact on probability of export if we control for self-selection effect for both export and ISO certification. Firms …

Export is an important contributor to growth with numerous direct and indirect macroeconomic benefits. Moreover, firms …

that, both industry-level import competition andfirm-level outsourcing to China reducefirm employment growth and induce … imports is large. Industry import competition from China accounts for 42% of the withinfirm increase in the share of skilled …

indicate that, both industry-level import competition and firm-level outsourcing to China reduce firm employment growth and … Chinese imports is large. Industry import competition from China accounts for 42% (20%) of the within firm increase in the …

using manufacturing survey data and customs transaction data. We find that Chinese import competition in El Salvador has a … of Chinese import competition in El Salvador reduces the employment of production workers by 2.27%. The negative impact …-percentage-point-increase in the measure of Chinese import competition in El Salvador reduces low-productivity firms TFP by 1 …

are more often importers, import more different goods, and import from more different countries of origin. …

This paper investigates the impact of Chinese import competition on firms' performance, and whether firms employing … strategy relying on a shift-share instrument, we find that an increase in Chinese import competition faced by firms on an …