between firm size, scope and productivity. More efficient firms become exporters, but not all exporters are large and not all …

quantity and price information to disentangle markups from quantity-based productivity, and then compute marginal costs by …

identify the impact of increased import competition on firm performance and its contribution to the significant productivity … that imports took away market share from domestic firms. Furthermore, much of the effects on sectoral productivity come … firms in particular, which can be rationalized by an increase in the minimum productivity threshold needed to survive in …

, scope, and productivity. In the model, firms are heterogeneous in how well they cope with expanding their product range. The …-discount puzzle" found in the data. Globalization induces a merger wave that leads to an improvement in average productivity. This … improvement is not due to selection effects but rather due to product-level productivity effects. The model predicts that …

A firm's productivity depends on how production is organized given the level of demand for its product. To capture this … theory, heterogeneity in demand leads to heterogeneity in productivity and other firms' outcomes. We use the theory to … and will decentralize decisions. The new organization of the average exporter results in higher productivity, although the …

, simulate the trade liberalization, and compute the resulting growth rates of Canadian industry productivity, exports and … have smaller productivity enhancing effects than Canadian tariff reductions due to the entry of less efficient exporters …. Quantitatively, the model tends to underpredict the impact of CUSFTA on growth rates of productivity, but overpredicts the increase …