The impact of exporting on firm productivity: A meta-analysis of the learning-by-exporting hypothesis

Review of World Economics

Volumn 145, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 431-445

  Martins, Pedro S ^a,b,c   Yang, Yong ^a,d  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^c IZA   (Germany)

^d BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Globalisation; Productivity; Publication bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350584979     PISSN: 16102878     EISSN: 16102886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10290-009-0021-6     Document Type: Article

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