markups, quality and productivity while measuring/interpreting the pass-through of trade costs into welfare. Robust to the … of productivity, suggesting that lower trade costs are associated with higher-quality imports that have been produced … decomposed into their components, the positive contribution of quality dominates in all cases, followed by the negative effects …

's aggregate exports. The data allows for a characterization of both the crosssectional distribution of Mexican exports, across … destinations and across exporting firms, and of the time-series variation in aggregate exports and its relation to time …-series variation in the export supply decisions of firms. It is found that the cross-sectional variation of exports is mostly accounted …

While many studies explain the correlation between firm-level productivity and export status entirely by better firms … provinces with weaker institutions. The same type of firms also enjoy the largest productivity gains immediately following …

survival is better if the initial export share is larger and exports are more differentiated. Previous experience with foreign …

drop in exports to this market in the subsequent years. The results are robust to the use of different sets of firm- and …

Why is it that exporter productivity premia (EPP) differ so widely in size? We take this question to the theory and to … EPPs across sectors, and hence across countries, can be explained by the variation in productivity dispersion, trade costs …

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 …

experience productivity gains increase their volume of exports ... … establishing outlets abroad impact the export performance of local firms and test its predictions empirically for the agri-food … via an increase in their productivity. The growing competitive pressure in the upstream sector, induced by global retail …

likely to use trade intermediaries, as are firms which produce low quality goods. In contrast, neither foreign ownership nor …