drives low-productivity firms from the small country's home market, replacing them with high-productivity exporters from … abroad. This endogenous policy response creates a selection effect that increases the average productivity of home firms when …

extension of our approach to multivariate diffusions, in which one can permit innovations to productivity to be transmitted …

productivity differences, the model features profit and wage differentials across industries. We use this setting to study the …

This paper studies the impact of trade reforms on the evolution of plant's productivity in Chile (1979-2000). The main … oriented policies. We find evidence of a positive impact of export oriented policies on productivity of traded sectors relative … to non traded. On the other hand, the reduction of import barriers might have a positive impact on productivity in export …