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 …

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 …

This paper studies the effects of trade liberalization on the evolution of firm productivity. The productivity of each … nominal tariffs on firms' productivity levels is identified. After controlling for the endogeneity of nominal tariffs, the … estimated coefficient for tariffs in the productivity equation turns out to be negative. Second, a measure of tariffs on inputs …

after the reforms, volatility in productivity and output gets translated into larger wage and employment volatility …

relationship is concentrated among establishments with low initial levels of labor productivity, capital intensity and skill …

productivity in services, especially large urban firms and in service sectors whose output is used as a manufacturing input …

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 …