integration, namely, trade volumes, export/trade patterns by product (primary and manufacturing goods), and by destination (inter …, capital accumulation and total factor productivity growth. The analysis finds causal evidence that trade integration fosters … intra-regional trade are channeled through enhanced total factor productivity growth …

-distributed firm productivity and fixed costs of exporting, predicts that, conditional on the fixed costs of exporting, all variation … lognormal distribution of firm productivity allows the Melitz model to successfully match the role of the intensive margin … methods and the EDD, a generalized Melitz model with a joint lognormal distribution for firm productivity, fixed costs and …

firms' product scope and export sales changed after Chinese liberalization vis-a-vis Asian liberalization. The findings … for 18 percent of additional French export sales. These results are robust when accounting for foreign competition faced …

linking this to productivity, which turns out to be important. The paper also provides an example of modeling productivity …

services. The authors examine the link between those reforms and the productivity of manufacturing firms using panel data for … had significant, positive effects on the productivity of manufacturing firms. Services reforms benefited both foreign and … in the aggregate index of services liberalization resulted in a productivity increase of 11.7 percent for domestic firms …

productivity growth, while the older literature focused on average productivity improvements ( "learning" ). The authors use … important role in aggregate productivity gains immediately following the start of India's trade reforms in 1991. However …, aggregate productivity gains during the overall period from 1985 to 2004 were driven largely by improvements in average …

-invariant) characteristics of workers (innate ability) and any additional productivity that obtains in the context of employment in the specific …