productive enough to overcome the entry costs of foreign markets. Once firms pass this productivity threshold, they all export … services and manufacturing for 2010-2014. Our findings are threefold. First, high productivity is an important, but not a … sufficient condition for exporting. Firm size (substitute for productivity), import status, and foreign ownership are also …

This paper estimates a dynamic general equilibrium model of entry, exit, and endogenous productivity growth …. Productivity is endogenous both at the industry level (firms enter and exit) and at the firm level (firms invest in productivity …-enhancing activities). The focus of the paper is on two activities that make productivity-enhancing investments more attractive, namely …

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 …

Many studies have provided evidence that the correlation between firm-level productivity and export status is driven by … productivity performance after they enter the export market and start selling abroad. In this study, we provide evidence for one … sample would be able to raise productivity if they operated at a larger scale. Entering the export market enables these small …

increases employment and average wages. Gains in productivity and employment are particularly large when firms enter exports …This paper investigates the effect of export entry on productivity, employment and wages of Latvian and Estonian firms … firms also realise more than 23% and 14% higher labour productivity level as the result of export entry. Export entry also …

margins of trade and firm productivity. We employ proxies for trade costs to quantify the extensive and intensive margin … adjustments of trade. Relatively few exporting firms account for the majority of Belgian exports and these large firms have … greater productivity and value-added, more employees and exported products. Across firms, productivity is positively …

This paper provides an estimation of the reaction of firm-level exports consecutive to real exchange rate movements … - the exchange rate elasticity of exports. Following recent theoretical works emphasizing the role played by firm … heterogeneity, we test in particular how the exchange rate elasticity may be a..ected by firm-level productivity, and how the …

value chain-related products and compares the productivity premium of international traders for these different categories … results confirm that global value chain-related trade is associated with a higher productivity premium compared with …

productive enough to overcome the entry costs of foreign markets. Once firms pass this productivity threshold, they all export … services and manufacturing for 2010-2014. Our findings are threefold. First, high productivity is an important, but not a … sufficient condition for exporting. Firm size (substitute for productivity), import status, and foreign ownership are also …

which rationalizes the available evidence on both aggregate and firm-level exports as well as their responsiveness to … result, validated on Italian firm-level trade data, is consistent with productivity sorting in the export mode and with the … propensity of high productivity firms to absorb more exchange rate movements in their markups. We also explore how direct and …