. Moreover, they seem to experience higher productivity growth rates in the post-entry period, suggesting learning …-by-exporting effects. However, applying matching methodology to formally evaluate the causal effects of export market entry on productivity …This paper evaluates the causal effects of exports to different destination countries using a comprehensive dataset on …

establishments' productivities. Inflation distorts aggregate productivity through firm entry dynamics. The model is calibrated to the … decrease in the steady-state average productivity of roughly 0.5 percent compared to the optimum's steady-state. This decrease … in productivity is not innocuous: it leads to a doubling of the welfare cost of inflation. …

This paper studies how firms contribute to the productivity growth of an industry over their lifecycle. We present a … decomposition method that allows us to condition the components of productivity growth on the age of production units. We find … effect is tightly related to the negative initial productivity effect of entry. We also find some evidence that productivity …

Firm turnover (i.e. firm entry and exit) is a well-recognized source of sectorlevel productivity growth across … form an important component of productivity growth. …

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

investigate the relationship between exports and productivity. Our overall results are in line with the big picture that is by now … controlled for, and these exporter productivity premia tend to increase with the share of exports in total sales; there is strong … evidence in favour of self-selection of more productive firms into export markets, but nearly no evidence in favour of the …

, therefore, seems to be useful to guide empirical work on the relation between exports, R&D and productivity for services firms … 2011) in a model that explains the decision of heterogeneous firms to export and to engage in R&D. Using a non …-parametric test for first order stochastic dominance it is shown that, in line with this hypothesis, the productivity distribution of …

international trade, together with some new facts. First, the availability of information on import and export enables us to … differentiate firms involved in both trading activities - namely two-way traders - from firms that only export, and from those that … only import. We show that firms engaged in both import and export outperform those involved in either importing or …