Del Gatto, Massimo; Ottaviano, Gianmarco; Pagnini, Marcello - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
We use Italian firm-level data to investigate the impact of trade openness on the distribution of firms across marginal cost levels. In so doing, we implement a procedure that allows us to control not only for the standard transmission bias identified in firm-level TFP regressions but also for...