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 …

Melitz (2003) demonstrates that greater trade openness raises industry productivity via a selection effect and via a … static and dynamic efficiency gains. That is, although freer trade improves industry productivity in a level sense, it harms … endogenises the growth rate of industry productivity and we show that liberalization slows growth. …