-Griliches estimation procedure will tend to overestimate exporting firm markups and underestimate their productivity. In addition, we … industries scale economies (and subsequently productivity) cannot be estimated independently of markups. We extend this basic … framework to show that, if exporting markups are smaller than those attainable in the domestic market, the Klette …

A startling fact of firm level productivity analysis is the large and persistent differences in both labour … productivity and total factor productivity (TFP) between firms in narrowly defined sectoral classes. The competitiveness of an … industry is potentially an important factor explaining this productivity dispersion. The degree of competition has also …

Much of recent Trade theory focuses on heterogeneity of firms and the differential impacttrade policy might have on … firms with different levels of productivity. A common problem isthat most firm level dataset do not contain information on … output prices of firms which makesit difficult to distinguish between productivity differences and differences in market …