, simulate the trade liberalization, and compute the resulting growth rates of Canadian industry productivity, exports and … have smaller productivity enhancing effects than Canadian tariff reductions due to the entry of less efficient exporters …. Quantitatively, the model tends to underpredict the impact of CUSFTA on growth rates of productivity, but overpredicts the increase …

-profit maximizing managers to reconcile theory with the evidence. Empirically, I find that all productivity upgrades are driven by … productivity of firms. However, there is less consensus about the underlying mechanism at work. While trade papers focus on access … leads to productivity increases, but only for firms that were already highly productive before. The evidence on import …

Empirical evidence suggests that trade liberalization increases firm productivity. This paper offers a novel … tasks the closer they are to their core competencies, this outsourcing increases firm productivity. Moreover, I also …

I develop a novel theory of GATT/WTO negotiations. This theory provides new answers to two prominent questions in the … fundamental GATT/WTO principles of reciprocity and nondiscrimination? Relative to the standard terms-of-trade theory of GATT …/WTO negotiations, my theory makes two main contributions: first, it builds on a ‘new trade’ model rather than the neoclassical trade …

manufacturing firms matched with custom transactions for the years 2000-2006, we measure sizable differences in productivity and …

liberalization. Firm productivity in a given product is modeled as a combination of firm-level “ability” and firmproduct- level …-level ability raises a firm’s productivity across all products, which induces a positive correlation between a firm’s intensive … (output per product) and extensive (number of products) margins. Trade liberalization fosters productivity growth within and …

and closure of low productivity firms combined with internal growth of more efficient firms. …

causation processes in shaping the productivity and comparative advantage of different regions. In the presence of such … increasing returns there may be persistent spatial disparities in productivity. Economic development will tend to be 'lumpy …