Exporting and Productivity in the USA

By Andrew B. Bernard. 2004

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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Immigration, Trade and Productivity in Services: Evidence from U.K. Firms (2018, background): “, Bernard, Jensen, Redding and Schott (2007) for the US, and Mayer and Ottaviano (2008) for Europe). Hence firm heterogeneity, the presence of an important intensive and extensive margin of trade and the concentration of trade in a single foreign market are features that motivate the structure of ou”
Imports and Exports at the Level of the Firm: Evidence from Belgium (2009, positive): “The arguments were perhaps most powerfully put by Bernard and Jensen (1999, 2004).”
Exports, FDI, and Productivity: Dynamic Evidence from Japanese Firms (2006, methodology): “To test the effects of exports and FDI on productivity growth, following Bernard and Jensen (1999), we run a simple regression of changes in TFP (0fi) on the initial export/FDI status (Yu) and additional firm characteristics (Chans,,):”
Productivity, exporting, and the learning‐by‐exporting hypothesis: direct evidence from UK firms (2008, positive): “Consider the following quotes set out in Clerides, Lach and Tybout (1998): 1 The importance of the productivity/exporting link is set out in e.g. the survey of Bernard and Jensen (2004).”
Learning-by-Exporting: What We Know and What We Would Like to Know (2012, methodology): “Bernard and Jensen (2004.a) noticed that trade improved welfare by facilitating the growth of high productivity plants, not by increasing productivity growth at those plants. Reaching a different conclusion, Hanson and Lundin (2004) found that the decomposition of Swedish TFP growth into within-firm”
Understanding Cross-Country Differences in Exporter Premia: Comparable Evidence for 14 Countries (2008, background): “In 1995 Bernard and Jensen published the first of a series of papers that use large comprehensive longitudinal data from surveys performed regularly by official statistics in the United States to look at differences between exporters and non-exporters in various dimensions of firm performance, inclu”
Productivity Effects of Outsourcing - New evidence on the strategic importance of vertical integration decisions (2009, background): “We expect a positive correlation of the firms' export quota with labour productivity, as exporting companies are no longer able to operate in their protected national niches but rather have to face global competition on foreign markets, forcing them to exploit further efficiency and productivity pot”
Firms in international trade (2016, methodology): “…orders from an 23 For other papers that test for and don’t find evidence of learning-by-exporting, see Isgut (2001), using data from Colombia, and Bernard and Jensen (2004), using U.S. data. international rug intermediary across small rug makers, they evaluate in a laboratory setting whether…”