Vast empirical evidence underscores that exporting firms are more productive than non-exporters. As governments … firms significantly learn-by-exporting. Manufacturers obtain significant performance improvements due to … internationalization although this effect is moderated by export destination. Firms that export outside Africa become more capital …

with American firms’ nationalistic and profit motives, plus their early attempts to organize and lead global value chains …

, from products to firms to countries, and we find that the model’s predictions agree with empirical growth distributions and …

, which covers both elementary units (products) and classes (markets, firms) in a given industry (pharmaceuticals), covering …

which may represent business firms or other socio-economic entities. We found that P(K) is described in its central part by …

the body of the distribution. We test the model at different levels of aggregation in the economy, from products, to firms …

decision to export, based on the Polish manufacturing firm-level data. Estimation of productivity of individual firms is …The model by Melitz (2003) predicts that if firms differ in their productivity (TFP) and there exists a fixed costs of … entry to export markets, firms begin exporting if productivity exceeds a certain threshold value. Productivity is thus a …

imperfect information, by a temporarily finite and changing set of players. The firms’ innovative activity is a Nash’s dynamic … IBM, which allow to conclude that firms do innovation either because they have to or because this is their comparative … and firms continue to apply the same business patterns and thus do create scientific input which gives back negative …