human capital, are associated with a stronger relationship between importing and productivity. …Our study extends the recent literature on the importer-productivity relationship to a firm-level dataset for sub … estimation methods. Furthermore, we examine the importance of absorptive capacity in enhancing the benefits from importing. Using …

This paper focuses on self-selection into trade by exporting and importing firms, and on the presence of differential …-selection effect for both importing and exporting firms with a stronger effect for importers. The results suggest that the nature of … sunk costs varies between importing and exporting activities with importers facing higher sunk costs. Tariffs represent a …

Abstract In this paper we examine productivity differences between trading and non-trading firms in the services sector …

Motivated by the longstanding interest of economists in understanding the nexus between firm productivity and export … production function and latent firm productivity in the presence of endogenous export opportunities that is robust to recent … favored in the literature. Using our methodology, we obtain robust productivity estimates for manufacturing firms from twenty …

Exporters tend to be more productive than non-exporting firms, and uncovering the extent of these productivity … productivity. I provide a new synthesized (nonparametric) methodology for the structural control-function-based identification of … unobserved firm productivity in the presence of (i) endogenous self-selection into export markets, (ii) dependence of …

Abstract In this paper we examine productivity differences between trading and non-trading firms in the services sector …

This paper examines productivity differences between internationally trading and non-trading firms using data on a …

This paper focuses on self-selection into trade by exporting and importing firms, and on the presence of differential …-selection effect for both importing and exporting firms with a stronger effect for importers. The results suggest that the nature of … sunk costs varies between importing and exporting activities with importers facing higher sunk costs. Tariffs represent a …

This paper examines productivity differences between internationally trading and non-trading firms using data on a …