This paper uses micro-data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys 2002-2006 to investigate how foreign ownership affects the...

Gains from productivity and knowledge transmission arising from the presence of foreign firms have received a good deal of empirical...

Gains from productivity and knowledge transmission arising from the presence of foreign firms have received a good deal of empirical...

Learning-by-exporting proponents argue that exporting increases productivity by exposing producers to new technologies or through...

Learning by exporting proponents argue that exporting increases plant-level productivity by exposing producers to new technologies or...

We evaluate the impact of firm-specific export subsidies on exports in Colombia. Using a two-stage Heckman selection procedure, we...

We evaluate the impact of firm-specific export subsidies on exports in Colombia. Using a two-step selection model, we predict...

The ongoing debate of the literature on learning-by-exporting is whether the conspicuously stellar performance of exporters relative...

Losing a parent is a trauma that has consequences for human capital formation. Does it matter at what age this trauma occurs? Using...

This paper aids our understanding of the link between innovation and exporting behavior by detailing how firms may purposefully decide...

Foreign-owned firms are frequently viewed as an important source of new capital, access to world markets and employment generation and...

This paper uses micro-data from the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys 2002-2006 to investigate how foreign ownership and access to...