role in aggregate productivity gains immediately following the start of India's trade reforms in 1991. However, aggregate …Recent trade theory emphasizes the role of market-share reallocations across firms ("stealing") in driving productivity … growth, while the older literature focused on average productivity improvements ("learning"). The authors use comprehensive …

aggregate productivity gains following the beginning of India’s trade reforms in 1991. However, aggregate productivity gains … during the period from 1985 to 2004 were largely driven by improvements in average productivity. We show that India’s trade … mechanism through which trade reform increases aggregate productivity. Although a plausible response would be that India’s labor …

important role in aggregate productivity gains immediately following the start of India's trade reforms in 1991. However … productivity growth, while the older literature focused on average productivity improvements (“learning”). The authors use … comprehensive, firm-level data from India's organized manufacturing sector to show that market-share reallocations did play an …