This paper studies the effects of trade liberalization on the evolution of firm productivity. The productivity of each … nominal tariffs on firms' productivity levels is identified. After controlling for the endogeneity of nominal tariffs, the … estimated coefficient for tariffs in the productivity equation turns out to be negative. Second, a measure of tariffs on inputs …

productivity sort across city sizes and select into exporting. The model allows us to study the geographic implications of trade … raises not only the aggregate productivity of the economy but also its aggregate export intensity, by allowing more firms to …

of economic growth. It examines this hypothesis by estimating the productivity gain afforded to Brazilian textile firms … by the reform of the regulations governing Brazil's securities markets in 1890. This analysis is based on panel data … regressions on 18 firm-level censuses covering the period 1866-1934, which permit me to decompose total factor productivity growth …

mismatches are associated with significant productivity losses …

wages and productivity across establishments. The second is that the increased dispersion in wages and productivity across … productivity dispersion have increased substantially over the last few decades, and (4) a substantial fraction of the rising … dispersion in wages and productivity is accounted for by increasing wage and productivity differentials across high and low …

We estimate the rate of total factor productivity growth in Indian manufacturing industry for the period 1973-1992, and … it ignores the additional capital formation made possible by an increase in productivity and therefore understates … productivity's true importance. Our estimates suggest that the understatement may be quite large, and that one might better ask if …

productivity of the targeted industries and regions grew significantly faster than those of non-targeted ones. While the plant …-level total factor productivity also grew faster in targeted industries and regions, the misallocation of resources within them … got significantly worse, especially among the entrants, so that the total factor productivity at the industry-region level …