-setting power) and (iii) revenue productivity. We apply this framework to analyze whether the pricing behavior of firms in product …

countries is large, while exports become more important if scale economies in production are large. This paper investigates … empirically the effect of different dimensions of distance on the choice between exports and FDI. We find that different … dimensions of distance affect exports and FDI differently. There is clear evidence of a proximity-concentration trade-off in …

home country. This paper investigates the effects on productivity and trade from the perspective of transaction costs … suggests that the effect of offshoring manufacturing and services on total factor productivity (TFP) is positive and larger … than the effect of R&D on productivity. …

Traditional heterogeneous firms and trade models predict no causal relationship between firms' exports and domestic …-product sales in different markets for the first time in the literature to identify the channels that link exports and domestic … sales. First, I use an instrumental variables strategy and establish that an exogenous doubling of exports increases a firm …

exports. Contrary to the existing literature that describes processing firms as inferior, these mixed firms are superior to … choose to engage in both activities. We test our model's central prediction by exploiting China's pilot \paperless … that facilitating processing exports induces productive domestic downstream firms to establish their own trademarks. Our …

simultaneity bias in productivity estimates through semi-parametric techniques, we find that changes in domestic firms’ TFP are …

plants exist. The results indicate that divestment is associated with a drop in total factor productivity accompanied by a …