export transactions. South African firm-level exporting is similar to the stylized facts of firm-level exporting found … exported, but also in terms of the number of products and destinations they export too. These in turn are related to firm …-level characteristics including productivity. …

differences are important in determining whether learning effects boost productivity after export market entry …There is extensive empirical evidence pointing to the exsistence of sunk costs to exporting. Only higher productivity … firms can profitably cover these and enter export markets. This is the standard explanation for the regularity with which …

their profitability in different countries and products, but learn it as they start to export. As a consequence, exporters …, we find empirical support consistent with such a mechanism, where firms learn from their initial export experiences and …

The aim of this paper is to explore how a recent methodology developed to look at export dynamics in a region in a … large economy can be extended to look at export dynamics in a small open economy, where local market size means that … context of the recent trade modelling of export heterogeneity (e.g., Melitz (2003)), this paper explores export dynamics in …

This study analyses empirically the effects of import competition on firm productivity (TFPQ) using administrative firm … positive incentives for firms to invest in productivity improvement, whereas import competition from middle- and low …-level panel data from German manufacturing. We find that only import competition from high-income countries is associated with …

This paper uses firm-level data for Mexican exporters to understand how firm-level export decisions shape a country …-series variation in the export supply decisions of firms. It is found that the cross-sectional variation of exports is mostly accounted … exporting firms that retain their export status from year to year. …

entering into the export market. We find evidence in support of both self-selection and learning by exporting. …

productivity. Further, we analyse both own-direct effects of exporting (importing) and cross-direct ef- fects of exporting …

simultaneously import intermediate inputs and export (vertically specialized firms à la Hummels et al., The Nature and Growth of …The aim of this paper is to investigate whether the probability of ceasing to export is lower for firms that … twoway trading firms (in terms of size, productivity, foreign ownership and skilled labor) explain their greater resistance …

simultaneously import intermediate inputs and export (vertically specialized firms à la Hummels et al., The nature and growth of …The aim of this paper is to investigate whether the probability of ceasing to export is lower for firms that … two-way trading firms (in terms of size, productivity, foreign ownership and skilled labor) explain their greater …