account of the regional heterogeneity computing the productivity dispersion indicator within each sector and regional macro … the productivity heterogeneity across firms, while an opposing impact is detected for the exposure to trade with high …

We examine how multinational firms with heterogeneous total factor productivity (TFP) self-select into different host …

We develop a model of international trade with two sources of firm heterogeneity: "productivity" and "caliber …". Productivity is modeled as is standard in the literature. Caliber is the ability to produce quality using few fixed inputs. While … to single-attribute models of firm heterogeneity emphasizing either productivity or the ability to produce quality, our …

productivity in a model of heterogeneous firms to the highest degree. I analytically derive the minimum aggregate total factor … productivity (TFP) under resource misallocation, when frictions are modeled as the taxes levied on a firm's output, and the range …

For the period between 1988 and 2009, we constructed the two sets of the world panel database for the pollution … emission embedded in international trade. By applying the time-invariant common pollution intensity at industry level for … international trade of over 150 countries, a change in pollution emission from the first database reflects scale and composition …

The objective of this study is to calculate and decompose productivity incorporating multi-environmental pollutants in … Chinese industrial sectors from 1992 to 2008. We apply a weighted Russell directional distance model to calculate productivity … productivity, with the main contributing factors being labor saving prior to 2000. 2) The main contributing factors for …