This study analyzes empirically the effects of import competition on firm productivity (TFPQ) using administrative firm … positive incentives for firms to invest in productivity improvement, whereas import competition from middle- and low …. Costly investment in productivity appears feasible reaction to such type of competition and we find no evidence for …

This paper analyses the effect of innovation on the well-established productivity-export association in the literature …. Here, we argue that actively innovative firms have a higher productivity, which make them more likely to become exporters … further, which may facilitate future productivity. We use the micro-data from two waves of Swedish Community Innovation Survey …

. In the model, firms are heterogeneous in productivity. Selection effect and agglomeration economies caused by … agglomeration increase firms' productivity and decreases industrial entry costs, and factor prices are increased because of … shows that the compositive effect is that the influences of productivity on the latter increase with agglomeration level …

the supply of non-stop flights provided by full-service carriers has a positive impact on the exports of Italian regions …

parameters. As an application, this paper discusses the firm's decision on entry in a foreign market either by exports or FDI …

In previous research, we analysed the effect of technological innovation, understood as absorptive capacity, on exports …