This paper estimates the costs of EU restraints on trade in textiles and clothing. After explaining the methods used …, we examine the impact of an opening up of EU trade in textiles and clothing, inter alia to those economies where the …

industry productivity and social welfare. For this purpose we develop a reciprocal dumping model of international trade with … heterogeneous firms and endogenous R&D. We identify two effects of trade liberalization on productivity: a direct effect through … low (high) trade costs; (ii) increases expected industry productivity; and (iii) raises expected social welfare if trade …

is increasing in its productivity, with the most productive multinationals choosing not to rely on a foreign partner at … direct investment ; multinational enterprise ; joint venture ; productivity …

do more than one of those activities. In our estimation we consider the relationship between productivity all the choice …

their engagement in already existing Indian firms. Most notably, the productivity of the German parents matters only for …

This paper estimates the aggregate productivity effects of Marshallian externalities generated by foreign direct … externalities and other intra- and inter-regional spillovers generated by domestic firms. The productivity effects of these … explicitly as determinants of total factor productivity, and tests several empirical specifications of this model, using data for …

productivity shocks, using capital-labor trade-off. The model generates higher volatilities of key variables and therefore enhances … the performance of the matching model to generate stylized facts in response to an aggregate productivity shock. However …

's productivity growth depends upon its distance from the world's technological leader. One motivating contemporary example includes …

The effects of unions on productivity and firm performance have been the topic of extensive research. Existing studies … of identical firms. This paper studies how different unionisation structures affect firm productivity and firm … tougher selection among heterogeneous producers and thus increases average productivity, firm-level bargaining allows less …

; Matching ; Sectoral Productivity Shock …