-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 … evident in the EDD. The paper then studies the implications of our findings for quantitative trade theory. Using likelihood …

There is a common perception that low productivity or low growth is due to what can be called an quot …

for greater capital accumulation, without being fully reflected in a higher rate of total factor productivity (TFP) growth …

the positive effect of liberalization on productivity when they do not account for the endogeneity bias. On the theory …There is a growing literature that investigates the effect of trade liberalization on productivity. Nearly all such … studies assume that trade policy is determined independently of productivity, hence it is exogenous. The author shows that …

-side and supply-side factors on industrywide aggregate productivity. The paper focuses on the effects of three factors: (1 … competition, which enables interpreting the estimated coefficients of a reduced form, dynamic productivity equation. The paper … blocks. In this industry, the expansion of the local market boosts industrywide total factor revenue productivity, while …