A recent boom in commodities-for-manufactures trade between China and other developing countries has led to much …

inducing the most productive formal firms to engage in trade. The model also predicts market share reallocations towards the …

This paper examines the role of international trade, and specifically imports from low-wage countries, in determining …-proportions-inspired work on offshoring and heterogeneous firms in trade, we build industry-level measures of import competition. Combining … Manufactures, and transaction-level trade data, we find that rising import competition from China and other developing economies …

This paper explores a newly-available panel data set merging balance sheet and international trade transaction data for …. The same is true if we consider the number of products traded. With regard to productivity differentials, firms that both …-selection in both export and import markets. Also, the productivity advantage of exporters reported in the literature may be …

production. Even a country which has zero ICT production can benefit via improving terms of trade. In the long run, the falling … United States or Sweden. Nevertheless the contribution to the long run growth of labour productivity stemming from even the …

This paper examines the relationship between foreign ownership and productivity, paying particular attention to two … productivity than foreign multinationals, but the difference is less stark in the service sector than in the production sector, and …

We use a new industry-level dataset to quantify the role of ICT in explaining productivity growth in the UK, 1970 … productivity growth in the market sector. Econometric evidence also supports an important role for ICT. We also find econometric …

Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro …

The US has experienced a sustained increase in productivity growth since the mid-1990s, particularly in sectors that … intensively use information technologies (IT). This has not occurred in Europe. If the US “productivity miracle” is due to a … abroad. This paper shows in fact that US multinationals operating in the UK do have higher productivity than non …