productivity of manufacturing industries relying on services inputs. The results, based on firm-level data from the Czech Republic …

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 … dividing observed prices by the estimated markups. We use India’s trade liberalization episode to examine how firms adjust …

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 …

detailed firm-level data from India, we provide the first evidence on the patterns of multi-product firm production in a large …-section, multi-product firms in India look remarkably similar to their U.S. counterparts, confirming the predictions of recent … churning - particularly product rationalization - is far less common in India. We thus find little evidence of "creative …

the context of India's 1991 tariff reforms. Overall, in the 1990s, rural India experienced a dramatic increase in … imply that roughly half of India's rise in schooling and a third of the fall in child labor during the 1990s can be …