multi-product firms, offshoring, intra-firm trade and firm export market dynamics …

The rise of offshoring of intermediate inputs raises important questions for commercial policy. Do the distinguishing … features of offshoring introduce novel reasons for trade policy intervention? Does offshoring create new problems of global … perform in a world where offshoring is prevalent? In this paper we provide answers to these questions, and thereby initiate …

. The theory demonstrates how to use the observed price dynamics to adjust prices for unobserved quality differences across …

The empirical literature finds mixed evidence on the existence of positive productivity externalities in the host … relative productivity of the foreign firm leads to higher additional growth in financially developed economies compared to …

such models in analyzing the production structure, the determinants of variable and quasi-fixed factors, and productivity … growth. The paper also discusses the traditional approach to productivity analysis based on the Divisia index number …

efficiency-based productivity growth rates to exceed observed productivity growth in the slowdown period of 1974 - 1995 …

productivity growth. The two major methods used in measuring productivity growth -- index number and econometric estimation …, infrastructure capital, allocative distortions, nature of the market structure and technological advancement on productivity growth … estimate the contribution of different inputs to productivity growth are described and the evaluation of the production process …

end-of-period stocks. We also derive measures of productivity and capacity utilization for the adopted modeling framework …

returns to scale. Furthermore, the paper gives a decomposition of the traditional measure of total factor productivity growth …