cost of inputs. Without trapped factors, trade liberalization leads to a small permanent increase in the worldwide rate of … appropriate estimate of the gains from trade. …

exporting and TFP growth, is mixed. We use a UK panel data set with firm-level information on exporting and productivity. Our … they learnt from other sources) in the past are more likely to then have productivity growth. This suggests some support …

. A central problem in the literature is that firm performance is affected by two countervailing "spillovers" : a positive …

aggregation problem introduces a bias into standard measures of firm productivity. We develop a theoretical model of heterogeneous …

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

markets. This approach explains a variety of features exhibited in disaggregated trade data, including the higher productivity …This paper reviews the new approach to international trade based on firm heterogeneity in differentiated product … of exporters relative to non-exporters, within-industry reallocations of resources following trade liberalization, and …

We investigate the role of a firm’s total factor productivity in its decision to import from their affiliates rather … strong empirical support for the theoretical predictions of the model. In particular, high-productivity firms that have a …

productivity of firms. However, there is less consensus about the underlying mechanism at work. While trade papers focus on access …A variety of empirical and theoretical trade papers have suggested and documented a positive impact of trade on the … to export markets, other papers stress the importance of import competition. Since imports and exports (and even tariffs …

efficiency. Our results suggest that competition between public providers prompted public hospitals to improve their productivity … did not spur public providers to improve their performance and instead left incumbent public providers with a more costly …

the central aims of this policy was to create financial incentives for providers to improve their clinical performance … incentive to improve performance in order to attract more patients. We use a modified difference-in-difference estimator to …