Halpern, László; Koren, Miklós; Szeidl, Adam - Center for Firms in the Global Economy (CEFIG) - 2011
We estimate a model of importers in Hungarian micro data and conduct counterfactual policy analysis to investigate the effect of imports on productivity. We find that importing all foreign varieties would increase firm productivity by 12 percent, almost two-fifths of which is due to imperfect...