productivity growth within the period and very little evidence that exporting growth has a causal effect on subsequent TFP growth. … acyclic or cyclic - imported from the machine learning literature, to revisit a well-known debate. Does exporting increase … firm productivity? Or is it only more productive firms that remain in the export market? We focus on a relatively well …

This paper explores the link between exports and total factor productivity (TFP) in Brazilian manufacturing firms over … assumptions (exogenous and endogenous law of motion for productivity) following Wooldridge's (On estimating firm-level production … techniques to assess whether the ex-ante most productive firms are those that start exporting (self-selection hypothesis …

This study examines whether the relationship between exports and productivity growth differs across firm size. Using …. This study finds evidence of productivity differences between new exporters and non-exporters confirming the empirical … vary across firm size, with both small and large firms experiencing immediate and significant productivity gains upon entry …

main results are: (i) Exporting is positively correlated with markups; (ii) Importing intermediate inputs and outsourcing …

main results are: (i) Exporting is positively correlated with markups; (ii) Importing intermediate inputs and outsourcing …

Does exporting intermediate goods induce learning from importers? In this paper, we examine to what extent learning … data on patent citations and trading in intermediate goods, we find support for the widely known “learning-by-exporting … certain industries. We also show that the level of absorptive capacity of the exporting trade partner, as measured by the …

This paper investigates how exporting affects firm innovation. We embed innovation into a firm heterogeneity model with … productivity, where in equilibrium the model shows that exporters invest more in innovation, such as research and development (R … (2003) method of estimating firm productivity and matching econometrics to control for endogeneity. The results show, on …

The paper answers two questions simultaneously. What is the effect of offshoring on firms' total factor productivity … for the effect of offshoring on both total factor productivity and relative skilled labor productivity, and for spillovers … intensity on total factor productivity, particularly of small domestic firms and large foreign-owned firms, and on skill …