causal effects on product quality, production efficiency, and exports. Poor management practices may thus hinder trade and …We present a heterogeneous-firm model in which management ability increases both production efficiency and product … quality. Combining six micro-datasets on management practices, production and trade in Chinese and American firms, we find …

efficiency. First, treatment firms have higher productivity and quality after controlling for rug specifications. Second, when …

This paper re-explores the relation between a country's level of wealth and the mix of products it exports. We argue … that both are simultaneously determined by countries' capabilities i.e. by countries' productivity and quality levels for …. This suggests that the main challenge for low-income countries is to raise quality and productivity in their existing …

) bilateral exports to the United States. The patterns in the data are consistent with the theory. The mean and the variance of …

that a reduction in the import tariff induces an incumbent importer/exporter to increase the quality of its exports and to … Chinese data and robust to various estimation specifications …

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

differ by export mode. We find that demand and productivity evolve more favorably under direct exporting, though the fixed …/sunk costs of this option are higher. Our results suggest that had China not liberalized its direct trading rights when it joined … the WTO, its exports and export participation would have been 30 and 37 percent lower respectively …

addition to "productivity", firms are also heterogeneous in their "caliber" -- the ability to produce quality using fewer fixed … inputs. Compared to single-attribute models of firm heterogeneity emphasizing either productivity or the ability to produce …

This paper examines the extent to which the destination of exports matters for the input prices paid by firms, using …