analysis reveals a rising low-income country trade share around and after China's accession to the World Trade Organization … evidence for sequential sorting into different export-modes according to firm productivity: i) only the most productive firms …

trade share around and after China's accession to the World Trade Organization. Based on this stylized fact we analyze the …- and high-income destinations is associated with a higher productivity compared to the average productivity measured by …

plant's placement within the productivity distribution. Appreciations of the local currency expose domestic plants to more … competition from abroad as export opportunities shrink and import competition intensifies. As a result, smaller less productive … plants are forced from the market, which truncates the lower end of the productivity distribution. For surviving plants …

Firms display remarkable persistence in exporting and importing status. However, export and import status do not … overlap perfectly, as some exporters do not import while some importers do not export. Motivated by these facts, I develop a … dynamic discrete choice model of a firm’s decision to import and export. A firm needs to pay either sunk costs to initiate an …

first propose three measures of firms' productive performance: labor productivity, total factor productivity, and technical … countries in the sample. The exception is Morocco, whose various measures of firm-level productivity rank close to the ones of … handicapped by high unit labor cost, compared with main competitors like China and India. The empirical results show then? that …