producers in Egypt. Combined with detailed survey data, we causally identify the impact of exporting on firm performance …-quality products that take longer to produce. Instead, we find evidence of learning-by-exporting whereby exporting improves technical … efficiency. First, treatment firms have higher productivity and quality after accounting for rug specifications. Second, when …

increasing in firm productivity while the number of produced products that are exported is weakly increasing in firm productivity … the relationships between firm productivity and the numbers of exported products observed in the data, several demand and …

on productivity is different for plants being more embedded in international markets through exporting or being part of a …We investigate the impact of international outsourcing on productivity using plant level data for Irish manufacturing … outsourcing of services on productivity for firms not operating on the export market. …

We expect trade liberalization to give rise to aggregate productivity gains, as the least efficient firms are forced … importance of intrinsic firm efficiency relative to input quality as sources of exporters’ productivity premium, employing a … matched employer-employee data set for Norwegian manufacturing. Augmented measures of total factor productivity which take …

productivity performance of domestic firms in three emerging economies of Central and Eastern Europe, Bulgaria, Romania and Poland …

We analyze the relationship between firm-level innovation activities and firms’ propensity to start exporting for firms …

above average size, initial profitability and initial labour productivity. After controlling for this selection bias, we …