Using a rich longitudinal database at the plant level, I shed new light on the causal nexus between exports and … exporting firms in the entry year and some years following the entry. Exports seem to place firms on a superior productivity … also importing. Learning by exporting effects hold when I control for the role of imports and I verify larger productivity …

, including data on innovation and trade, we find clear sequencing between imports, exports and innovation. The results suggest … trade focusing solely on exports, whereby firm's learning effects are accounted in the firm of total factor productivity …

inputs arrive from developed countries and that importing is correlated with higher quality exports. We find limited evidence … competition in export markets relative to domestic ones. Our results strengthen arguments for policy focusing on promoting imports …

Spanish firms, including data on innovation and trade, we find clear sequencing between imports, exports and innovation. The … from trade focusing solely on exports, whereby firm's learning effects are accounted in the form of total factor …

This paper analyses the dynamic linkages between firms' imports of intermediate inputs and exports, for Colombia, an … cross) to explain firms' exports and imports of intermediates decisions. Finally, we find evidence in favour of both …