We investigate theoretically and empirically the role of wholesalers in mediating the productivity effects of trade … liberalization. Intermediaries provide indirect access to foreign produced inputs. The productivity effects of input tariff cuts on … firms experience productivity gains from reducing input tariffs if trade intermediation of foreign inputs within their …

Wages grow and become more unequal as workers age. Economic theory focuses on worker investment in human capital …

Total Factor Productivity (TFP), the empirical evidence on agglomeration externalities rests on measures obtained using firm … suggests that the revenue productivity advantage of denser areas is mainly driven by higher prices charged rather than …-level differences in productivity across space …

this paper, we investigate whether higher productivity causally leads to lower tax evasion. We first present stylized facts … emerging and developing economies. Our results suggests that productivity improvements by firms can lead to lower tax evasion …

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 …

productivity differences and internal trade frictions. We show that even in the absence of the typical externalities studied in the … relative to that chosen by a planner. In particular, optimal urbanization exceeds decentralized levels when productivity … closer to optimal policies than decentralized allocations whenever productivity differences in non-traded sectors are either …

marriage premium within a given productivity group, as well as a clear ranking of premia across different groups. We find …