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 production efficiency and product … quality. Combining six micro-datasets on management practices, production and trade in Chinese and American firms, we find …

efficiency. First, treatment firms have higher productivity and quality after controlling for rug specifications. Second, when …

This paper re-explores the relation between a country's level of wealth and the mix of products it exports. We argue … that both are simultaneously determined by countries' capabilities i.e. by countries' productivity and quality levels for …. This suggests that the main challenge for low-income countries is to raise quality and productivity in their existing …

) bilateral exports to the United States. The patterns in the data are consistent with the theory. The mean and the variance of …

that a reduction in the import tariff induces an incumbent importer/exporter to increase the quality of its exports and to … Chinese data and robust to various estimation specifications …

efficiency-based productivity growth rates to exceed observed productivity growth in the slowdown period of 1974 - 1995 …