degree of competition in a market with the share of nonprofits: the availability of economic profits under for-profit status …

geography. We use two variants of the Eaton-Kortum (2002) model to study China's local comparative advantage. The theory … nearby markets, and lighter goods in more distant markets. This theory motivates a simple empirical prediction: within a …

Economists emphasize two channels through which import liberalization affects productivity, one operating between and … the other within firms. According to the former, import competition triggers market share reallocations between domestic … to 2002. First, in the long run, import liberalization lowers productivity in domestic industries through selection. This …

The conventional wisdom in health economics is that large differences in average productivity across hospitals are the …, however, we find that productivity dispersion in heart attack treatment across hospitals is, if anything, smaller than in … productivity today is associated with about 4 percent more patients in 5 years. Taken together, these facts suggest that the …

model where the opening of new market opportunities causes an economic expansion by favoring competition for market share …