While the role of exports in promoting growth in general, and productivity in particular, has
been investigated empirically using aggregate data for countries and industries for a long …

Productivity Heterogeneity and “Export-Productivity” relation are separately core assumption
and major content of heterogeneous firm trade theory, nearly all countries‟ firm data …

We relate innovation to sales growth for incumbent firms in high-tech sectors. A firm, on
average, experiences only modest growth and may grow for a number of reasons that may …

Due to the skewed distribution of hotel prices, quantile regression provides a more flexible
and complete characterization of the determinants of the hotel prices at the higher and lower …

We conduct a meta-analysis of more than 30 papers that study the causal relationship
between exporting and firm productivity. Our main result, robust to different specifications …

Case studies suggest exporters learn from clients. Econometric evidence is mixed. We use
firm‐level panel data on exporting and productivity with direct information on learning …

Serial correlation in annual growth rates carries a lot of information on growth processes–it
allows us directly to observe firm performance as well as to test theories. Using a seven-year …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to report the results of a matched sample comparison
group study of elements of organizational culture that enable knowledge processes to drive …

One concern over globalisation is its impact on the environment. We analyse the
consequences of becoming an exporter on a firm's energy consumption. We show …

We construct a new database by matching firm-level Compustat data to NBER patent data,
for four 2-digit complex technology sectors. Whilst conventional regression estimators show …