We explore the export performance of Africa’s underperforming female entrepreneurs, using the Ghanaian ISSER-IGC panel … of key business constraints, across both male and female entrepreneurs. We find that females are less likely to export … (and optimize their exporting) than their male peers. Although reduced access to finance seriously constrains the exports …

-setting power) and (iii) revenue productivity. We apply this framework to analyze whether the pricing behavior of firms in product … of imperfections. Clear differences in behavior between firms that serve the foreign market either through exporting or … find export status to be positively correlated with both product market power (markups) and market power consolidated on …

-setting power) and (iii) revenue productivity. We apply this framework to analyze whether the pricing behavior of firms in product … of imperfections. Clear differences in behavior between firms that serve the foreign market either through exporting or … find export status to be positively correlated with both product market power (markups) and market power consolidated on …

This paper studies the relationship between firm markups and importing intermediate inputs and exporting using detailed …-year-level productivity and markup estimates. We find that importing intermediate inputs is associated with large markup premium, while the … theoretical framework, where firms lower their markup when exporting to more competitive foreign markets and where importing …

- 2011, we estimate productivity and exporting dynamics, controlling for other unobserved effects, and using General Method … and that learning has an impact on the export market. From a policy perspective, this evidence of learning by exporting … provided a definite prediction of the direction of causality. This paper investigates how the relationship between exporting …

participation and export performance. This paper examines whether and to what extent financing constraints affect firms' exporting … firms' productivity. The sensitivity of exporting to access to external financing appears to be most important for young …Financing constraints have been identified as an additional source of firm heterogeneity that affects export …

This paper investigates how exporting affects firm innovation. We embed innovation into a firm heterogeneity model with … productivity, where in equilibrium the model shows that exporters invest more in innovation, such as research and development (R … (2003) method of estimating firm productivity and matching econometrics to control for endogeneity. The results show, on …

firm productivity? Or is it only more productive firms that remain in the export market? We focus on a relatively well … suggest that exporting does not have any causal influence on the other variables. Instead, export seems to be determined by … other dimensions of firm growth. With respect to learning by exporting (LBE), we find no evidence that export growth causes …

I present a dynamic fixed cost model of export participation extended by a capital theoretic concept of the customer … stock. Plants that want to start exporting have to invest into a market specific factor which serves as input into a … in the sample saw a strong increase in export activity which provides a suitable case study for the predictive power of …

heterogeneity of total factor productivity (TFP) and export-market orientation, refining some previously known facts and unveiling … some new others. We first show that the exporter productivity premium is remarkably robust across the methodologies used to … recover TFP. We then document that the most productive exporters are those that export (1) a higher share of their total …