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 …

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 …

, 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 …

-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. …

composition of intermediate goods, and the distinction between the productivity indices for value added and for gross output. We …