For the last two decades, global landscape has been profoundly reshaped by two overwhelming processes: rapid diffusion of new technologies (ICT) and high-tech solutions have contributed to functioning of global economy, enhancing shifts in productivity and pervasively impacting economy,...

We ask whether the productivity advantage of internationalized firms documented by the international trade literature can be more correctly interpreted in terms of proximity to the “technological frontier”. We provide a positive answer relying on a methodology (based on mixture models) to...