Estimation of firm‐level productivity in the presence of exports: Evidence from China's manufacturing
存在出口时的企业生产率估计:中国制造业证据
Summary Motivated by the long‐standing interest of economists in understanding the nexus between firm productivity and export behavior, this paper develops a novel structural framework for control‐function‐based nonparametric identification of the gross production function and latent firm productivity in the presence of endogenous export opportunities that is robust to recent unidentification critiques of proxy estimators. We provide a workable identification strategy,…