-exporters. It is argued that this exporter-productivity premium is due to extra cost of exporting that can be covered profitably by … than non-exporting firms from the same 4-digit industry both on average and over the whole productivity distribution …. However, many firms from the lower end of this distribution are exporters. This paper report that these low-productivity …

guide empirical work on the relation between exports, R&D and productivity. … for first order stochastic dominance it is shown that, in line with this hypothesis, the productivity distribution of … firms with exports and R&D dominates that of exporters without R&D, which in turn dominates that of firms that neither …

Structure of Industrial Exports in Latin America (1990-2010)</h2> We analyze the behavior of industrial exports from a … contrasting it with the performance of the United States, the European Union and South Korea equivalent exports. At this time most … the new millennium, a process of exports diversification towards products with greater technology intensity. This process …

profitability and the quality of exports in enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany, one of the leading actors on the …

This paper contributes to the literature by comparing the productivity distribution for firms with various numbers of … goods. It applies a non-parametric test for first-order stochastic dominance of one productivity distribution over another … imported from, the higher is the productivity of the firms – not only on average, but over the whole productivity …