Internationalization and Economic Performance of Enterprises: Evidence from Firm-Level Data

Higher productivity in importing German manufacturing firms: self-selection, learning from importing, or both?

“…Differences in productivity and their relationship with different degrees of involvement in international trade are at the centre of these studies. As of today 2 we have evidence on this issue for Belgium (Muuls and Pisu 2007), Chile (Kasahara and Rodrigue 2005;Kasahara and Lapham 2008), Hungary (Halpern et al 2005;Altomonte and Békés 2008), India (Tucci 2005), Indonesia (Sjöholm 1999), Italy (Castellani et al 2008), Poland (Hagemejer and Kolasa 2008), Sweden (Andersson et al 2008), and the US (Bernard et al 2007). 3 Details aside, the big picture that emerges from this literature can be sketched as follows: There is a positive link between importing and productivity at the firm level, documented by a significant productivity differential between firms that import and firms that do not trade internationally; the same holds for exporting.…”

Learning-by-Exporting and Destination Effects: Evidence from African SMEs

“…Based on data from Slovenia, De Loecker (2004) applies matching techniques and finds large improvements in productivity when comparing exporter and non-exporter performance. Finally, Hagemejer and Kolasa (2008) conclude that Polish firms that start international activities improve their productivity significantly. In an emerging market context the self-selection and learning views are not mutually exclusive as the most productive firms self-select to export markets and (some) subsequently increase their competitiveness as a result of learning experiences from internationalization.…”

Differentiation of Innovation Behavior of Manufacturing Firms in the New Member States: Cluster Analysis on Firm-Level Data

“…Some research referred to the role of foreign trade as a source of international knowledge spillovers. Hagemejer and Kolasa (2008) show that differences in ability to absorb foreign knowledge through spillovers varies among types of firms in terms of internalization. Last but not least the issue of indirect knowledge spillovers as a result of R&D conducted abroad was raised.…”