indicate that export entrants improve their productivity in the first period after entry although this effect vanishes in the … subsequent period.This occurs for both total factor productivity (TFP) and labour productivity growth rates. Our evidence also …

findings indicate that export entrants improve their productivity in the first period after entry although this effect vanishes … in the subsequent period. This occurs for both total factor productivity (TFP) and labor productivity growth rates. Our …

Standard new trade models depict producers as heterogeneous in total factor productivity. In this paper, I adapt the … in value-added productivity. In equilibrium, this yields a positive relationship between the international trade …

firm productivity? Or is it only more productive firms that remain in the export market? We focus on a relatively well …-evolution of productivity and growth, and attempt to ascertain both contemporaneous and lagged causal relationships. Our findings … productivity growth within the period and very little evidence that exporting growth has a causal effect on subsequent TFP growth. …

into their direct (endowment accumulation, productivity growth, changes in trade costs, changing preferences) and indirect … productivity growth, and endogenous changes in expenditures shares on manufacturing goods and services. We quantify the importance … accumulation and trade costs have been the most important drivers of trade in the sample at hand, whereas productivity growth and …