direct investment by U.S. firms and the export trade of the United States, a subject of bitter controversy for at least the …

domestic sales and export flows. Spanish manufacturing firms whose domestic sales were reduced by more during the crisis … observed a larger increase in their export flows, even after controlling for firms' supply determinants (such as labor costs …). This negative relationship between demand-driven changes in domestic sales and changes in export flows illustrates the …

The fact that large manufacturing plants export relatively more than small plants has been at the foundation of much … the effect of distance, distinct from any border effect. Export destinations tend to be further than domestic destinations …

claim, we find a significant export wage premium for high-skilled workers in German manufacturing and an export wage … discount for lower skilled workers, using matched employer-employee data. Estimates suggest that the export wage premium to …

A positive correlation between productivity and export market participation has been well documented in producer micro … export market. The investment decisions depend on the expected future profitability and the fixed and sunk costs incurred … dominant channel driving participation in the export market and R&D investment. Both R&D and exporting have a positive direct …

questions examined are whether exporting improves productivity (learning) and/or whether more productive plants export (self … pronounced at around the time of entry into and exit from the export market. Thus, positive and robust cross …

reverse this prediction. Data for 1070 large Japanese firms reveal that firms that invest abroad and export are more … productive than firms that just export. Among overseas investors, more productive firms span a wider range of host-country income …

frontier and that the frontier will move out faster. In particular, plants that export will achieve a higher productivity level …. However intuitive the argument, empirical evidence is meager. This hypothesis is examined by calculating the effect of export … increase their productivity advantage after entry into the export market. While the first finding can be explained by selection …

markets affects the relative productivity of firms across the region. Firms with foreign ownership and firms that export are … firm characteristics available in the database to explore the sources of export firms' greater productivity. We argue that … it is in aiming for export markets that firms make decisions that raise productivity. It is not simply that more …