productivity growth, while the older literature focused on average productivity improvements ("learning"). We use comprehensive … role in aggregate productivity gains immediately following the start of India's trade reforms in 1991. However, aggregate … productivity gains during the overall 20-year period from 1985 to 2004 were driven largely by improvements in average productivity …

trade shifts the distribution towards higher average productivity due to entry and exit of firms. These models ignore the … assumption, produce in their 'birth nation.' We show that when firms are allowed to switch locations, new productivity effects … reinforces the big-nation productivity gain while reducing or even reversing the small-nation productivity gain. The small nation …

, distortions in the supply of non-traded inputs, and perverse incentives for informality creates a drag on productivity growth …

through learning by doing. These models imply that increased specialization accelerates productivity growth by more fully … realizing dynamic economies of scale. In order to test the hypothesis that specialization increases productivity growth in LDCs … countries, the index of specialization is positively and significantly correlated with manufacturing productivity growth. We …

that this dominance is inconsistent with use of a productivity-based allocation of quota licenses by the Chinese government …. Our counterfactual implies that elimination of misallocated quotas raised the overall productivity gain of quota removal …

markets. This approach explains a variety of features exhibited in disaggregated trade data, including the higher productivity … industry and firm productivity …

factor productivity, consistent with a theory where immigration increases the variety of skills available for production. We …

. Globalization is shown to induce heterogeneous responses across firms in terms of scope and productivity, some of which are …

We use plant output and input prices to decompose the profit margin into four parts: productivity, demand shocks, mark … the impact of productivity, and other market fundamentals, on plant exit. A dynamic simulation that compares the … distribution of productivity with and without the trade reform shows that improvements in market selection from trade reform help …