This paper develops a general test of factor price equalization that is robust to unobserved regional productivity …

Standard new trade models depict producers as heterogeneous in total factor productivity. In this paper, I adapt the … in value-added productivity. In equilibrium, this yields a positive relationship between the international trade …

indicate that export entrants improve their productivity in the first period after entry although this effect vanishes in the … subsequent period.This occurs for both total factor productivity (TFP) and labour productivity growth rates. Our evidence also …

resuscitate HOV by introducing a simple Hicks-neutral (HN) factor-productivity adjustment, an approach that was heavily criticized …. In this paper, we re-examine the productivity question by estimating factor-specific productivities from the individual …-augmenting technological differences. In particular, the factor-productivity adjustment works well for developed members of the OECD. Further …

Ricardian-Heckscher-Ohlin model implemented on 75 countries. We simulate two alternative productivity growth scenarios: a … balanced one in which China's productivity grows at the same rate in each sector, and an unbalanced one in which China …'s comparative disadvantage sectors catch up disproportionately faster to the world productivity frontier. Contrary to a well …

estimated using panel data. The explanatory variables considered are productivity, unit labor costs, unit values, trade costs …