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 …

to non traded. On the other hand, the reduction of import barriers might have a positive impact on productivity in export …This paper studies the impact of trade reforms on the evolution of plant's productivity in Chile (1979-2000). The main … contribution of the paper is to construct detailed measures of trade liberalization disentangling the impact of export and import …

productivity - enhancing effect. The reform of fixed-term contracts instead did not produce the intended results: it induced a … substitution of temporary employees in favor of permanent ones and reduced capital intensity, generating productivity losses. We …