multi-country sourcing model in which heterogeneous firms self-select into importing based on their productivity and country …

(MC) sector in which firms may have heterogeneous productivity levels. Domestic protection brings gains from expanding the …

increasing in firm productivity while the number of produced products that are exported is weakly increasing in firm productivity … the relationships between firm productivity and the numbers of exported products observed in the data, several demand and …

Foreign-owned firms are often hypothesized to generate productivity “spillovers” to the host country, but both …-ante identical workers learn from their employers in proportion to the firm’s productivity. Foreign-owned firms have, on average …, higher productivity in equilibrium due to entry costs, which means that low-productivity foreign firms cannot enter. Foreign …

. One features strong Balassa-Samuelson effects on nontradable prices due to productivity gains in the tradable sector, with …