efficiency. First, treatment firms have higher productivity and quality after controlling for rug specifications. Second, when …

competition from demand shocks in export markets – and the induced product mix reallocations – induce productivity changes within …We document how demand shocks in export markets lead French multi-product exporters to re-allocate the mix of products … sold in those destinations. In response to positive demand shocks, those French firms skew their export sales towards their …

foreign tariffs will induce these firms to simultaneously export and invest in productivity. In contrast, lower foreign … tariffs will induce higher-productivity firms to export without investing, as in Melitz (2003). We model this econometrically … induced by the tariff cuts to start exporting (a) increased their labor productivity, (b) engaged in more product innovation …

role in increasing productivity growth in U.S. manufacturing. Contemporaneous levels of exports and productivity are indeed … positively correlated across manufacturing industries. However, tests on industry data show causality from productivity to … exporting but not the reverse. While exporting plants have substantially higher productivity levels, we find no evidence that …

differ by export mode. We find that demand and productivity evolve more favorably under direct exporting, though the fixed … the WTO, its exports and export participation would have been 30 and 37 percent lower respectively …This paper shows that how firms export (directly or indirectly via intermediaries) matters. We develop and estimate a …

Using transactions-level customs data from Colombia, we study firm-specific export patterns over the period 1996 … previous year. These new exporters tend to be extremely small in terms of their overall contribution to export revenues, and … most do not continue exporting in the following year. Hence export sales are dominated by a small number of very large and …

's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data which provides direct measures for innovations and firm … export and innovation activities to become substitutes although they are generally natural complements … of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm …

broad support for the model's predictions. First, better managed firms are more likely to export, sell more products to more … destination countries, and earn higher export revenues and profits. Second, better managed exporters have higher prices, higher … causal effects on product quality, production efficiency, and exports. Poor management practices may thus hinder trade and …