This paper discusses the channels between openness and productivity and trade hampering factors. The stylized facts …

-city areas. Standard empirical tests of the new trade models consistently find productivity-based ex ante self selection by … also goes along with positive productivity sorting. Ignoring this leads to upwardly biased estimates of the effect of … hypothesis. I find evidence that positive productivity self-selection is based on the combined effects of agglomeration and …

its exports, as well as (ii) the relationship between the export prices of a firm and its productivity. The paper extends … costs. There are three key findings. First, there exists a positive relationship between firm productivity and export prices … because the choice of higher-quality inputs is associated with higher productivity. Second, tighter credit constraints faced …

entry and exit of firms affect performance and labor productivity. …

. Host country equity participation in foreign firms is consistent with higher unconditional productivity spillovers to …

when compared to global peers on pharmaceutical value-added, productivity, research and development and trade performance … productivity and R&D intensity. A host of competitive strategies, like greenfield direct investment, overseas acquisitions …