decades. The data suggests that producing this increased variety of vehicles is associated with a productivity penalty. We … productivity, but they reduce the cost of producing greater variety. The results are robust to controlling for the endogeneity of …

that this quantitative approach typically abstracts from: trade-induced changes in domestic productivity. Using a model of … sequential production, in which trade induces a reorganization of production that raises domestic productivity, we show that the …

likely to adopt technologies and increase productivity …