What is the effect of imports on productivity? To answer this question, we estimate a structural model of producers using product-level import data for a panel of Hungarian manufacturing firms from 1992 to 2001. In our model with heterogenous firms, producers choose to import or purchase...

We use data from Hungary to establish two results about the relationship between the government and the media. (1) We document large advertising favors from the government to connected media, and large corruption coverage favors from connected media to the government. Our empirical strategy...

We use firm-level data from Hungary to estimate knowledge spillovers in importing through fine spatial and managerial networks. By identifying from variation in peers' import experience across source countries, by comparing the spillover from neighboring buildings with a cross-street placebo,...