the domestic and export market. Cohorts of new firms have lower average productivity than incumbents but are also a … domestic and export market sort out high productivity from low productivity firms and that the export market is a tougher … inefficient firms to exit. As a result, low cost entry and exit may help improve aggregate productivity by allowing for the rapid …

This study disentangles the effects of outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) and export on the productivity of … OFDI has a significant positive impact on firm productivity, but that the productivity effect of just export is … insignificant. A complementarity exists between OFDI and export in improving firm productivity. Further, the effects of OFDI and …

This paper explores the effects of two wastewater regulations on export product quality using disaggregated level data …

questions examined are whether exporting improves productivity (learning) and/or whether more productive plants export (self … productivity, using the annual plant-level panel data on Korean manufacturing sector during the period of 1990 to 1998. The two key … pronounced at around the time of entry into and exit from the export market. Thus, positive and robust cross …

frontier and that the frontier will move out faster. In particular, plants that export will achieve a higher productivity level … increase their productivity advantage after entry into the export market. While the first finding can be explained by selection …. However intuitive the argument, empirical evidence is meager. This hypothesis is examined by calculating the effect of export …