What is the effect of imports on productivity? To answer this question, we estimate a structural model of producers … through imports advancing firm level productivity, while the remaining 50% comes from the reallocation of capital and labor to … heterogenous firms, producers choose to import or purchase domestically varieties of intermediate inputs. Imports affect firm …

This study examines the impact of imported intermediates on plant productivity and the role of plant capability in …. This study finds that import intensity does not significantly affect productivity. However, the impact of import intensity … on productivity is positive and significant for exporters and for plants with higher capital intensity. Meanwhile, older …

aggregate productivity, resource allocation, and industry export activity along both the extensive and intensive margins. Using … productivity and shipping costs using Chilean plant-level data for a set of manufacturing industries. The estimated model is … consistent with the key features of the data regarding productivity, exporting, and importing. We perform a variety of …

evidence of both self-selection into importing and learning-by-importing, but not all imports seem to matter for productivity …This paper looks at the question of how import activities and productivity are related. Using detailed production and … two types of imports, materials (or intermediate inputs) and machinery and equipment (or capital goods), and to separately …

International trade has been stated as one of the most important mean of improving firms' productivity, being the … channel behind, the technology transfer from foreign companies to local firms. Focusing on imports, they can positively … contribute to local firm's productivity performance by incorporating better inputs in their production processes. This paper …

significant impact on the productivity of Italian firms than imports from the US …We test the impact of import penetration on the productivity of a sample of roughly 35,000 Italian manufacturing firms … operating in the period 1996-2003, considering the impact on productivity of both import penetration in the same industry and …

estimate a structural model showing how exchange rate pass-through into sales depends on intermediate imports and the co …