Trefler (2004, AER) and others that industrial productivity increases more strongly in liberalized industries than in non … productivity increases more strongly in non-liberalized industries than in liberalized industries. …

industry productivity. For this purpose we develop a reciprocal dumping model of international trade with heterogeneous firms … expected industry productivity. The central results of the paper regarding firm and industry level R&D spending differ … significantly from the case of homogeneous firms. -- international trade ; firm heterogeneity ; R&D ; productivity ; market …

productivity differences, the model features profit and wage differentials across industries. We use this setting to study the …

-specific emission intensity decreases strongly with increasing firm productivity. -- trade and environment ; monopolistic competition …

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

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 …

presence of monopsonistic labor markets. The interaction of firm heterogeneity in productivity with idiosyncratic preferences … heterogeneity on the allocation of market shares and allows lower productivity firms to survive. In a closed economy this increases …