perform better, showing further productivity gains over time. The ability to get such improvements however relies on specific …

-firm trade are its larger size and higher productivity level. Its size premia range between 31.5% and 56.3% and its productivity …

firms position themselves in global production lines and how this evolves with productivity and performance over the firm …

firms position themselves in global production lines and how this evolves with productivity and performance over the firm …

There is extensive empirical evidence pointing to the exsistence of sunk costs to exporting. Only higher productivity … econometric analyses reports that exporters are more productive than non-exporters. But what happens to their productivity … trajectory once they have entered? Theory points to the possibiliity of a further productivity boost, attributable to the effects …

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 …

This paper is concerned with the productivity and growth of Swedish exporting firms. Using data on 9,580 manufacturing … that does not engage in innovation and has scarce access to external knowledge, the level of productivity is 2-12 percent …

exporters are different from non-exporters. We find high productivity growth rates among younger firms than older firms. However …, productivity gains do not come with entry to the market but rather set in after the year of entry. Our findings suggest that the …