Low export participation of firms across countries is typically related to high entry costs allowing only the most … productive firms to serve foreign markets. In this paper, we move beyond individual firm characteristics to explain export … participation and investigate whether firms' domestic network linkages can facilitate export entry. Firms receive information from …

mechanism, but also to efficiency improvements following the export activity. We find heterogeneous post entry effects with …

export penetration. …

uncover the determinants of the fickle and stable parts of firm export product mix, we use a cross section of firm …

evidence in favour of self-selection of more productive firms into export markets, but nearly no evidence in favour of the …

that firms that both export and import are the most productive, followed by importing-, exporting-only firms and nontraders …

This paper investigates the relation between firms' productivity and exporting behavior in presence of export … productivity-sorting prediction according to which domestic firms are less efficient than those resorting to an export intermediary …, while the latter are less productive than producers which export directly. Our novel finding is that firms' productivity has …