plant's placement within the productivity distribution. Appreciations of the local currency expose domestic plants to more … plants are forced from the market, which truncates the lower end of the productivity distribution. For surviving plants …, appreciations can lead to a reduction in plant size, which, in the presence of scale economies, can lower productivity. We examine …

effects on productivity changes. A differences-in-differences matching estimator is used to address the endogeneity bias of … similar. More specifically, no evidence is found of pre or post-entry differences in labour productivity for Moroccan firms …. -- firms ; new-new trade theory ; productivity ; exporting ; panel data ; Egypt ; Morocco …

This paper provides a direct test of how fixed export costs and productivity jointly determine firm-level export …, while those with higher productivity export more. These outcomes are the foundation of the widely-used sorting mechanism in … the trade models with firm heterogeneity. A particular and novel finding is that high-productivity nonexporters face …

', in particular the role of productivity and sunk costs of exporting in the firms’ export decision. It also takes into … firms, regardless of their productivity level, enter foreign markets every year with little sales and cease all exporting … activities in less than a year; 2) several of high-productivity firms choose to only serve their domestic market. …