and productivity hold in the years before the export start, which indicates self-selection into exporting of more …

-parametric test for first order stochastic dominance it is shown that, in line with this hypothesis, the productivity distribution of …, therefore, seems to be useful to guide empirical work on the relation between exports, R&D and productivity for services firms …, too. -- Exports ; R&D ; productivity ; business services firms ; Germany …

evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … taking differences along the conditional productivity distribution and firms with extreme values, or outliers, into account …) indicate that the productivity pecking order found in numerous studies using data for firms from manufacturing industries …

sell their products on the home market only. This so-called exporter productivity premium qualifies as a stylized fact … extreme values drive the result. The large exporter productivity premium found for samples of firms including outliers are … estimated exporter productivity premium is statistically significant and relevant from an economic point of view when a standard …

evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … taking differences along the conditional productivity distribution and firms with extreme values, or outliers, into account …) indicate that the productivity pecking order found in numerous studies using data for firms from manufacturing industries …