Organization and export performance

- Present new facts on the internal organization of firms and export performance.
- In the aggregate there is an ordering of the distribution of organizations.
- The number of layers in firms is positively correlated with export performance.
- Firms with a greater number of layers export more products to more destinations.
- Introducing organization into heterogeneous firm models can explain these facts.

This paper presents new facts on firms' internal organization and their export performance. I find an ordering of the distribution of organizations and, both across and within firms, firms' number of layers is positively correlated with their export performance.