We study, both theoretically and empirically, how export intensity (the ratio of exports to sales) is related to firm productivity. Using a representative sample of Italian manufacturing firms, we find that Total Factor Productivity (TFP) is strongly negatively correlated with export intensity...

Epifani reviews the micro-level evidence on the effects of trade and investment liberalization in the developing world. He focuses, in particular, on the effects of the 1991 trade reform in India since it provides an excellent controlled experiment in which the effects of a drastic trade regime...

We review the micro-level evidence on the effects of trade and investment liberalization in the developing world. We focus, in particular, on the effects of the 1991 trade reform in India, since it provides an excellent controlled experiment in which the effects of a drastic trade regime change...

I formulate a structural gravity model with monopolistic competition to measure the impact of manufacturing trade imbalances on aggregate measured productivity. Like in a Ricardian model la Dekle, Eaton and Kortum (2007), trade de cits lead to a bene cial terms-of-trade improvement, but this...