down countries' growth (relative to the world) into three trade-related channels: (i) an export pull measuring the traction …, and (iii) a domestic response measuring the impact of the country's imports on its domestic income. This decomposition … manufactures and Mexico, and the third on services and Central America. The evidence points toward the need for a trade …

imports of intermediate inputs, and about 85 percent is explained by investment in research and development. The evidence … reflect physical productivity. Within-firm productivity changes from export entry are computed using a difference …-in-differences matching estimator. The findings show that, over a six-year period, the difference in productivity growth between export …

Recent work on China's accession to the World Trade Organizations pays little attention to the wave of reforms in China … preeminence of processing trade at the time of accession sharply reduced the impact of accession-related tariff reductions on … production sharing since that time. The assessment in this paper, based on export data and simulation results on the ex ante …