This study analyses empirically the effects of import competition on firm productivity (TFPQ) using administrative firm …-level panel data from German manufacturing. We find that only import competition from high-income countries is associated with … positive incentives for firms to invest in productivity improvement, whereas import competition from middle- and low …

This study analyzes empirically the effects of import competition on firm productivity (TFPQ) using administrative firm …-level panel data from German manufacturing. We find that only import competition from high-income countries is associated with … positive incentives for firms to invest in productivity improvement, whereas import competition from middle- and low …

estimation results, we relate productivity estimates with import competition, using firm and product level measures of import …Using detailed firm-product level quarterly data, we develop an estimation framework of a Multi-Product Production … competition. We find that if productivity at the firm level tends to positively react to increased import competition, the multi …

This paper studies the impact that import competition from China had on firms performance in the manufacturing sector … cumulative impact on net sales when we account for longer timeframes. Looking at import competition from China in third markets …, we find that increased competition in the Peruvian exporting firms main export markets had a negative effect on …

In this paper we propose a novel method for the price-cost markup estimation and study the relationship between export … adjustment of the markup related to changes in export intensity. …

We study how increased import competition affects the evolution of productivity in a small open economy. We use a … productivity. We find that a 1% increase in the import share leads to a 1.05% gain in productivity. This elasticity translates into … manufacturing output in Belgium. We show firms appear to be less productive the further away from their ”core” competency product. We …