This paper asks how market expansion contributes to productivity growth. It investigates whether entry to both new … international markets and new domestic markets is associated with greater productivity growth. It also examines whether exit from …

This paper examines how trade liberalization and fluctuations in real exchange rates affect export-market entry/exit … of entry and exit responses as well as the productivity outcomes differ markedly in the three periods. Consistent with … are more likely to enter and less likely to exit export markets. The reverse also occurs: entrants to export markets …