This paper explores how reductions in tariffs on imported inputs and final goods affect firm productivity by exploiting … importantly, unlike previous findings, reductions in output tariffs have a greater effect on productivity improvement compared … construct firm-level input and output tariffs. Careful examination of the extent of firm engagement in processing trade and in …

countries through links in global supply chains. We combine data from inputoutput relationships, imports and tariffs, to … calculate the impact of the tariff increases by both the US and China on cumulative tariffs for other countries and thus hurt …‐exported to third countries. The most heavily hit third countries are the closest trade partners, namely Canada and Mexiko. We …

potential productivity benefits. The welfare benefits of final-good tariffs thus tend to be larger, with the optimal degree of …Import tariffs tend to be higher for final goods than for inputs, a phenomenon commonly referred to as tariff …-maximizing tariffs are uniform across sectors. We show that tariff escalation can be rationalized on efficiency grounds in the presence …

major financial or economic crash. With a shrinking labor force and declining efficiency of investment, raising productivity …

structural change, and measures and empirically evaluates the contribution of structural change to labor productivity growth (LPG …

liberalization on firm productivity by using both Chinese manufacturing firm-level data and highly disaggregated Chinese import data … over 1998-2002. For this purpose, I first calculate firm's total factor productivity (TFP) by adopting an augmented Olley …'s exit. After controlling for the endogeneity issue, trade liberalization is found to significantly boost firm's productivity …

-level total factor productivity using the Olley–Pakes approach suggests that processing firms are less productive than non …