moving from a Pareto to a lognormal distribution allows the Melitz model to match the role of the intensive margin in the EDD …. We use likelihood methods and the EDD to estimate a generalized Melitz model with a joint lognormal distribution for firm …

We provide the first direct estimates of distribution expenses incurred by manufacturing plants and assess their …: (1) distribution expenses are large - they amount to over half of labor costs; (2) plants in the largest decile … - relative to the smallest - spend over three times as much on distribution as a share of sales; and (3) between 2000 and 2010 …

relationship between progressivity and economic growth. Regressions do not reveal a significant impact of progressivity on growth …

This paper examines real and financial linkages between Saudi Arabia and other GCC countries. Growth spillovers from …

constraints and small economic size. This paper explores the potential linkages between export structure and economic growth and … industries. The empirical analysis finds that export diversification may promote economic growth and reduce economic volatility …

This paper provides evidence of a strong relationship between the short-term dynamics of growth and inequality in … developing economies. We find that reductions in inequality during growth upswings are largely reversed during growth slowdowns … channel through which fluctuations in growth affect future dynamics in inequality. These findings suggest that both the …

important growth spillovers in the region, and identifies the main source countries and those most vulnerable to the economic … conditions of others. Estimates show that in the short run, positive idiosyncratic shocks to regional trading partners' growth … significantly increase growth in the average sub-Saharan African country, while in the long-run the annual impact of growth in …

finds that introducing LMRs and PMRs simultaneously would add about 2.5 percentage points (pp) of GDP growth and reduce …

leaders and followers innovating in few industries with low aggregate growth …