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 …

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 …

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

liberalization. Firm productivity in a given product is modeled as a combination of firm-level quot;abilityquot; and firm … firm-level ability raises a firm's productivity across all products, which induces a positive correlation between a firm …'s intensive (output per product) and extensive (number of products) margins. Trade liberalization fosters productivity growth …

We develop a monopolistically competitive model of trade with firm heterogeneity - in terms of productivity differences … productivity of competing firms. We analyze how these features vary across markets of different size that are not perfectly … in that market. Aggregate productivity and average markups thus respond to both the size of a market and the extent of …

Melitz (2003) demonstrates that greater trade openness raises industry productivity via a selection effect and via a … static and dynamic efficiency gains. That is, although freer trade improves industry productivity in a level sense, it harms … endogenises the growth rate of industry productivity and we show that liberalisation slows growth …

firm framework. The paper also shows how the aggregate industry productivity growth generated by the reallocations …, the paper provides an extension of Krugman's (1980) trade model that incorporates firm level productivity differences …. Firms with different productivity levels coexist in an industry because each firm faces initial uncertainty concerning its …

The new trade theory emphasizes the role of market-share reallocations across firms ("stealing") in driving … 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 …