productivity premium. Using a model of heterogeneous firms that can move between regions, Baldwin and Okubo (2006) show how more … intensive. As a result, our model can produce sorting to the large regions from both ends of the productivity distribution …. Firms with high capital intensity and high productivity as well as firms with very low productivity and low capital …

This paper studies tax competition in an economic geography model that allows for agglomeration economies with trade … of tax competition in our model. This also means that tax competition has consequences for the average productivity of … the big and small nations' industry; by lowering tax rates, the small nation can attract high-productivity firms. …

This paper develops a theory which investigates how firms' choice of corporate organization is affecting firm … determine heterogeneity across firms in size and productivity in the same industry. We then incorporate these organisational … increase in aggregate productivity of an industry depending on which of these margins dominate. Trade may trigger firms to opt …

indirect effects of foreign direct investment on measured firm level productivity depend on a number of firm specific features …

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

markets. This approach explains a variety of features exhibited in disaggregated trade data, including the higher productivity … industry and firm productivity. …

firms, and the fact that larger firms supply more products than smaller firms, implies that standard productivity measures … are not independent of demand system assumptions and probably dramatically understate the relative productivity of the …

We develop a theory of multiproduct firms to analyze the effects of globalization on the distributions of firm size …, 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 …

selection model and a standard model of agglomeration. Stronger selection in larger cities left-truncates the productivity … agglomeration and firm selection using French establishment-level data and a new quantile approach. Spatial productivity differences …Firms are more productive on average in larger cities. Two explanations have been offered: agglomeration economies …