Exporting may not always boost firm productivity

Review of World Economics

Volumn 141, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 561-582

  Greenaway, David ^a   Gullstrand, Joakim ^b   Kneller, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Exporting; Firm level productivity; Matching

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746907444     PISSN: 16102878     EISSN: 16102886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10290-005-0045-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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