In this paper I analyze the productivity gains from trade liberalization in the Belgian textile industry. So far …, empirical research has established a strong relationship between opening up to trade and productivity, relying almost entirely … on deflated sales to proxy for output in the production function. The latter implies that the resulting productivity …

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 …

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

, distortions in the supply of non-traded inputs, and perverse incentives for informality creates a drag on productivity growth … that China sells, rather than goods that China buys. I assess evidence from recent literature on these arguments and …

We note the absence of prior literature on analytical structures to be used for China and other economies with … empirical literature discussing the productivity effects of Chinese SOE enterprise reform, and wider policy discussion of the …

OECD growth rate of 2% we find that trade integration with low-wage countries in the decade around China's WTO accession ….7%. China accounts for about half of these growth increases …

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 …