margins of trade and firm productivity. We employ proxies for trade costs to quantify the extensive and intensive margin … greater productivity and value-added, more employees and exported products. Across firms, productivity is positively … associated with firm exports. More productive firms export more products to more countries and have higher average product …

This paper studies how the presence of multinational enterprises affects the export performance of Bulgarian … manufacturing firms - Export spillovers from FDI. Using export data at the firm/product/destination level for the period 2004 …-2006, we find positive forward spillover on export value and quantity, related to quality upgrading. Conversely, we find …