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. …

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 …

errors of returns under serial correlation. The repeat sales methodology is generally used to construct an index of prices or …

reconcile the conflicting primal and dual estimates of productivity growth over the period. …

-size distribution? Do they affect individual city sizes? Do they contribute to the productivity advantage of large cities and the nature …