negative albeit weak effect on total factor productivity. But this is confined to the year of exit as we fail to detect any … discernible productivity effect due to exit in subsequent years. By contrast exit is found to have a deleterious effect on both …

In this paper we directly test the proposed productivity hierarchy of direct, indirect and non-exporters using firm …-exporters. Furthermore, we test the underlying relationship between source-specific fixed trade costs and the average productivity … productivity premium of direct exporters only. While other studies have shown that exports by trade intermediaries increase with …

This paper contributes to the flourishing literature on exports and productivity by using a unique newly available …