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 …

This paper uses an oligopoly model with heterogeneous firms to examine how an industry adjusts to rising import … face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the average productivity of survivors increases. These pro …-competitive effects of import penetration on the domestic industry disappear in the long run. The predictions for the short run are …

This paper uses an oligopoly model with heterogeneous firms to examine how an industry adjusts to rising import … face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the average productivity of survivors increases. These pro …-competitive effects of import penetration on the domestic industry disappear in the long run. The predictions for the short run are …

This paper uses an oligopoly model with heterogeneous firms to examine how an industry adjusts to rising import … face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the average productivity of survivors increases. These pro …-competitive effects of import penetration on the domestic industry disappear in the long run. The predictions for the short run are …

This paper uses an oligopoly model with heterogeneous firms to examine how an industry adjusts to rising import … face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the average productivity of survivors increases. These pro …-competitive effects of import penetration on the domestic industry disappear in the long run. The predictions for the short run are …

This paper studies how different unionisation structures affect firm productivity, firm performance, and consumer … tougher selection among hetero- geneous producers and thus increases average productivity, firm-level bargaining allows less … model to a two-country setup, I furthermore show that the positive effect of centralised bargaining on average productivity …

international trade, together with some new facts. First, the availability of information on import and export enables us to … only import. We show that firms engaged in both import and export outperform those involved in either importing or …

document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the … systematically by testing for self-selection of more productive firms into importing, and for productivity-enhancing effects of … imports ('learning-by-importing'). We find a positive link between importing and productivity. From an empirical model with …

-selection in both export and import markets. Also, the productivity advantage of exporters reported in the literature may be … too. We note that the number of trading firms diminishes as the number of export destinations or import origins increases …. The same is true if we consider the number of products traded. With regard to productivity differentials, firms that both …

-regional variation in initial industry structures and use trade flows of other high-income countries as instruments for regional import … regions specialized in import-competing industries, both in manufacturing and beyond. Regions specialized in export …