import penetration is systematically positively related to productivity growth. The results are robust to measurement issues … in productivity after controlling for market size, country and sector heterogeneities, and for the endogeneity of import … from low to high productivity firms, that translates into an industry productivity growth. A similar firms’ selection …

estimation results, we relate productivity estimates with import competition, using firm and product level measures of import … competition. We find that if productivity at the firm level tends to positively react to increased import competition, the multi …-product firms response varies according to the relative importance of the product that faces stronger import competition in the firm …

leads to productivity increases, but only for firms that were already highly productive before. The evidence on import … productivity of firms. However, there is less consensus about the underlying mechanism at work. While trade papers focus on access … to export markets, other papers stress the importance of import competition. Since imports and exports (and even tariffs …

. We also found that productivity gains in import-competing sectors are higher than other sectors. …The impact of trade liberalization on productivity and economic growth has received considerable attention in recent … on productivity growth. We contribute to this literature by providing evidence on the productivity response to trade …

leads to productivity increases, but only for firms that were already highly productive before. The evidence on import … productivity of firms. However, there is less consensus about the underlying mechanism at work. While trade papers focus on access … to export markets, other papers stress the importance of import competition. Since imports and exports (and even tariffs …

. Further, it is also found that imports and the import tariffs playing a major role in boosting exports growth in India, thus … indicating `import-led exports growth' mechanism. Subsequently, the paper examines the relationship between exports, imports …, exchange rate and productivity using a panel of firms from the Indian manufacturing industries. Results indicate that, although …

the role of import. This paper fills this gap by looking at the interaction between import and productivity in influencing … greater for firms with previous import experience. To test this, I examine whether productivity increases the probability to …There are several studies that find a positive effect of productivity on firm-level export, but little is known about …

labor productivity of the central region of Mexico at the municipio (county) level. In particular, we measure the spatial … autocorrelation of the labor productivity and use a spatial approach to study the intra-distributional changes of the productivity …. The results show that the labor productivity reveals strong local disparities and spatial dependency across municipios …