causal effects on product quality, production efficiency, and exports. Poor management practices may thus hinder trade and …We present a heterogeneous-firm model in which management ability increases both pro- duction efficiency and product … quality. Combining six micro-datasets on management prac- tices, production and trade in Chinese and American firms, we find …

We derive exact conditions relating the distributions of firm productivity, sales, output, and markups to the form of … Marginal Revenue): it is necessary and sufficient for the distributions of productivity and sales to have the same form …

matched firm-level customs and manufacturing survey data, together with Input-Output tables for China, to examine how Chinese … firms position themselves in global production lines and how this evolves with productivity and performance over the firm … lifecycle. We document a sharp rise in the upstreamness of imports, stable positioning of exports, and rapid expansion in …

foreign ownership significantly stabilized firm exports when liquidity dried out in the crisis, in particular among small and …

emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U …

supply chains – and how this decision affects performance. We exploit matched customs and balance-sheet data from China …, where exports are classified as ordinary trade, import-and-assembly processing trade (processing firm sources and pays for …