China’s policy-makers argued that WTO accession and the accompanying trade liberalization would have a beneficial … impact on the domestic economy. China’s import tariffs differed tremendously across industry in the earlier years, but … identify the impact of increased import competition on firm performance and its contribution to the significant productivity …

level of income and export intensity. Specifically, the paper investigates theoretically and empirically how financial … constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities. Theoretical predictions are tested using unique firm survey data … constraints strongly adversely affect the ability of domestically owned firms to innovate and to export and hence to catch up to …

adopt a model of firm heterogeneity and export participation which we estimate to match moments of the French data using the …

between firm size, scope and productivity. More efficient firms become exporters, but not all exporters are large and not all … large firms export. Following a trade liberalization, non-exporters experience a fall in their market-to-book ratio and …

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

, 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 …

indirect effects of foreign direct investment on measured firm level productivity depend on a number of firm specific features … higher in the special economic zone aimed at attracting foreign capital to fasten the development of China’s own high tech …

in export volumes and the decline in prices after the quota removal are driven by net entry, implying that the pre …-liberalization quota allocation is not based on firm productivity. Removing this misallocation accounts for a substantial share of the … overall productivity gains associated with the quota removal. …