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 …

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 …

consistent with theory (about 1 percentage point per annum). Endogeneity problems are considered and other observations are …

theory, heterogeneity in demand leads to heterogeneity in productivity and other firms' outcomes. We use the theory to …A firm's productivity depends on how production is organized given the level of demand for its product. To capture this … mechanism, we develop a theory of an economy where firms with heterogeneous demands use labor and knowledge to produce …

, simulate the trade liberalization, and compute the resulting growth rates of Canadian industry productivity, exports and … have smaller productivity enhancing effects than Canadian tariff reductions due to the entry of less efficient exporters …. Quantitatively, the model tends to underpredict the impact of CUSFTA on growth rates of productivity, but overpredicts the increase …