Learning-by-exporting: Continuous productivity improvements or capacity utilization effects? Evidence from Slovenian firms

Review of World Economics

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 599-614

  Damijan, Jože P ^b   Kostevc, Črt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Difference in differences; Exports; Firm heterogeneity; Learning by exporting; Matching

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749489600     PISSN: 16102878     EISSN: 16102886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10290-006-0083-7     Document Type: Review

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