Firm heterogeneity and exports in Portugal: identifying export potential

For Melitz (2003), the driving force behind a firm’s decision to export is productivity. If firms pass the productivity cut-off, they all export. Nonetheless, empirical studies show that a substantial share of high-productive firms do not export. Using a dataset that covers Portuguese non-financial...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Torres, Frederico Oliveira (author)
Format: masterThesis
Language:eng
Published: 2019
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10362/66772
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:run.unl.pt:10362/66772