, productivity and distance may impact on firms’ performances. -- Heterogeneous firms ; exports ; imports ; productivity ; market of …How are firms’ performances influenced by the specific characteristics of markets where exports are directed and … destinations of exports and different origins of imports map into distinctive firm characteristics. Second, we test the hypothesis …

Using the micro-level data on China’s export enterprises from 2005 to 2013, this paper discusses the impact of …

different internationalization states according to their productivity levels. While these papers ignore the fact, that the … with a broader investment strategy, reflecting a great importance of market-driven motives, show higher productivity levels …

. Combining a dataset of Argentinean firm-level destination-specific wine exports with quality ratings, we show that higher … quality exports grew faster before the crisis, but this trend reversed during the recession. Quantitatively, the effect is … large: up to nine percentage points difference in trade performance can be explained by the quality composition of exports …

China's policy of encouraging export processing has been the topic of much discussion in the academic literature and … on subsequent firm level productivity. These productivity effects are shown to be larger than those accruing to firms who … enter into ordinary exporting. Interestingly, the estimation of quantile treatment effects shows that the positive effects …

This paper examines the causal relationship between productivity and exporting in German manufacturing. We find a … causal link from high productivity to presence in foreign markets, as postulated by a recent literature on international … markets enables firms to achieve further productivity improvements, without finding significant evidence for this. We conclude …

macroeconomic shocks. Our results confirm that selection into exporting is largely driven by productivity and industry technological …

the other hand, previous empirical studies show that exporting does not necessarily improve productivity. One possible … status and the growth of its labour productivity, using the firms' export status as a binary treatment variable and comparing …'s export-sales ratio and its labour productivity growth rate. We find that there is a causal effect of firms' export activities …