endowments and productivity, relative factor costs emerge as a source of real-income variation across countries. These are shaped … "residual" productivity required to explain the observed per-capita income differences by more than one half. …

evidence for sequential sorting into different export-modes according to firm productivity: i) only the most productive firms …

, higher productivity plants, account for the bulk of sales, and also sell externally most of the inputs they produce. In a …

Many policymakers view power outages as a major constraint on firm productivity in developing countries. Yet empirical … the long-run general-equilibrium effects of power outages on productivity. Outages lower productivity in the model by …

-distributed firm productivity and fixed costs of exporting, predicts that, conditional on the fixed costs of exporting, all variation … of firm productivity allows the Melitz model to successfully match the role of the intensive margin evident in the EDD … estimate a generalized Melitz model with a joint lognormal distribution for firm productivity, fixed costs and demand shifters …