and wages in Romania …

values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility …

productivity. Our model extends basic Ricardian theory to accommodate many countries, geographic barriers, and imperfect … explain basic facts about U.S. plants: (i) productivity dispersion, (ii) the productivity advantage of exporters, (iii) the … examine counterfactuals to assess the impact of various global shifts on productivity, plant entry and exit, and labor …

role in increasing productivity growth in U.S. manufacturing. Contemporaneous levels of exports and productivity are indeed … positively correlated across manufacturing industries. However, tests on industry data show causality from productivity to … exporting but not the reverse. While exporting plants have substantially higher productivity levels, we find no evidence that …

summarized to a first order by the current and expected future values of the Solow productivity residual in level and by the …

employment, average hours worked, physical capital accumulation and, most importantly, total factor productivity and its skill … and hours worked by natives. At the same time we find robust evidence that they increased total factor productivity, on … results are robust to controlling for several other determinants of productivity that may vary with geography such as R …

liberalization. Firm productivity in a given product is modeled as a combination of firm-level "ability" and 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 within and …

aggregation problem introduces a bias into standard measures of firm productivity. We develop a theoretical model of heterogeneous …