-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 …

output and average productivity, with stronger positive productivity effects for newly imported intermediate inputs. However …

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. …

return to research effort seems unusually high. …

While it is well understood that industrialized countries use aid to grant political favors, little research covers …

growth. The results suggest that de facto and de jure globalization influence economic growth differently. Future research …