This paper examines how trade liberalization and fluctuations in real exchange rates affect export-market entry/exit … of entry and exit responses as well as the productivity outcomes differ markedly in the three periods. Consistent with … are more likely to enter and less likely to exit export markets. The reverse also occurs: entrants to export markets …

This paper explores how reductions in tariffs on imported inputs and final goods affect firm productivity by exploiting … construct firm-level input and output tariffs. Careful examination of the extent of firm engagement in processing trade and in … importantly, unlike previous findings, reductions in output tariffs have a greater effect on productivity improvement compared …

Trade and growth theories predict a mutual causation of innovation and exports. We test empirically whether innovation … causes exports using a uniquely rich German micro dataset. To overcome the potential endogeneity, we need to identify … variations in innovations that are exogenous to exports. We argue that this instrumental variable strategy yields estimates of …

this paper is to disentangle the direct and indirect links through which self-selection into exports, coming both from … a self-selection into exports direct effect coming from productivity. Second, there is also a self-selection indirect … effect into exports stemming from productivity to the probability of exporting through process innovations: the higher the …

performance. The magnitude of the effect is large: a one percent increase in spending on technology increases exports by 30 … spending on technology imported from leaders increases exports by 176 percent, whereas a one percent increase in spending on … technology imported from non-leaders increases exports by about 28 percent. -- Technology Choice ; Exporting ; Productivity …