aggregate structural change. Rising manufacturing productivity and falling international trade costs further contribute to the … growth of large services firms in the densest urban areas, boosting services productivity and services exports, but also land …

toward rising middle class of Asia. To successfully implement the new initiative of "Make in India", India needs to be … service networks will grow and contribute to the rapid growth in China, India, and Southeast Asian countries, especially from … India's perspective. It also examines the trends and patterns; and prospects of integration as well as the prospects for …

export experience in a market are more likely to source service inputs from there. We rationalize this fact in a model where … firms are initially uncertain about how successful they are as exporters, but learn their export profitability as they keep … they become sufficiently confident about their export prospects, i.e., once they acquire enough export experience. 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. …

-sectoral resource allocation (IRA) and by within-sector selection of firms according to productivity (which we call Melitz selection … impacts include changes in the probability of entry into the export market, the fraction of firms that export and the share of … export revenue. We test our hypotheses using Chinese firm-level data for the years after China's accession to WTO in 2001 …

Whether a firm is able to attract foreign capital and whether it may participate at the export market depends on …

significant increase in services imports (2002-2012). We use world service export supply shocks, which we allocate to firms based …

differ from those in an export-only model. Calibrating our model to rich firm-level data from France and Norway, our main …

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 … firms experience productivity gains from reducing input tariffs if trade intermediation of foreign inputs within their …