Olper, Alessandro; Pacca, Lucia; Curzi, Daniele - International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium - IATRC - 2013
from low to high productivity firms, that translates into an industry productivity growth. A similar firms’ selection … import penetration is systematically positively related to productivity growth. The results are robust to measurement issues … in productivity after controlling for market size, country and sector heterogeneities, and for the endogeneity of import …