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 … industry. Using firm level data from China, we document that wholesalers play no such role for direct importers. However, other …

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 … production stages conducted in China over the 1992-2014 period, both in the aggregate and within firms over time. Firms span more …

and their consequences on average productivity and welfare in a trade model with heterogeneous firms. We find that the … decisions, having an impact on the average productivity of the economy and, ultimately, on welfare …

A fundamental result in the theory of commodity taxation is that taxes increase consumer prices and reduce supply …

products with intermediate productivity. Shocks to trade costs and technology affect the endogenous decision to export or … produce abroad at the product-level and, in turn, the relative productivity between parents and affiliates …

number of structural shocks as domestic and foreign productivity shocks in final tradables and non-tradables, money demand …