Using a unique plant-level dataset we examine total factor productivity (TFP) growth and its components, related to …

analysis reveals a rising low-income country trade share around and after China's accession to the World Trade Organization … evidence for sequential sorting into different export-modes according to firm productivity: i) only the most productive firms …

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 …

job destruction in low-productivity firms and job creation in high-productivity firms. In contrast, the net effect of … reductions in Chinese input tariffs is limited to job destruction in low-productivity ordinary exporters. …

dependence as well as parameter heterogeneity, simultaneously. We then propose the regional productivity network analysis to … examine the diffusion impacts of the capital intensity on the labour productivity in the EU. We apply the proposed approach to …