Mexico and the US, on the productivity of Mexican plants between 1994 and 2007. We use detailed panel data on Mexican … manufacturers matched with trade data at the product level. Using quantity-based estimates of plant-level productivity, we identify … foreign competition causing initially low-productivity plants to fall farther behind their peers. We focus on within …

followed by only-exporters; and iii) estimating export premium without controlling for import status is likely to overestimate …

product and process innovation among exporting firms and these innovations have a larger impact on productivity improvement in … export market sales. As a result, exporting firms have a higher payoff from R&D investment, invest in R&D more frequently … than firms that only sell in the domestic market, and, subsequently, have higher rates of productivity growth. The …

In this paper, we empirically examine how export pioneers emerge and how they are related to product creators … covers the process from the appearance of product creators as well as product imitators to the emergence of export pioneers …. We find, first, that product imitators are larger, more productive and older than product creators. Second, most export …

export, quality innovation, and cost innovation decisions. Estimation results show that export, quality innovation, and cost … innovation increase next-period firm productivity by 1.39%, 1.23%, and 1.27%, respectively. Additionally, quality innovation … on firm export and innovation decisions than domestic market growth, but neither market significantly affects firm …

export and that export participation is highly persistent. There is also evidence supporting the learning by exporting … hypothesis and the results suggest a significant export premium of between 15 and 24 per cent, controlling for differences in …. We conclude that the Mozambican Export Promotion Institute could play an important role in overcoming this information …

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 …

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 …

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 …

relationship between innovation and productivity in Finland, Norway and Sweden at the firm level. Although these countries enjoy a …The availability of new internationally-harmonized innovation survey data collected from OECD countries has created … some interesting opportunities for studying the following two key areas: (1) the determinants of innovation behavior at …