to leave the market, thereby affecting aggregate productivity. Since wage and productivity responses are endogenous, our … model is well suited to studying the impact of trade integration on aggregate productivity and factor prices. Using Canada … of removing the Canada-US border on wages, productivity, mark-ups, the share of exporters, the mass of varieties produced …

spillovers from incumbent firms to entrants cause the productivity threshold for firm survival to grow over time as competition …

We study how financial frictions affect firm-level heterogeneity and trade. We build a model where productivity …

heterogeneous firms and costly trade. Growth originates from horizontal specialization and the steady state productivity growth rate … production. -- productivity ; entry costs ; heterogeneous firms ; trade liberalization …

investigate the relation between firms' trading activities (importing, exporting or both) and productivity. We find important self … correlated within firms, failing to control for the importing activity leads to overstated average productivity premia of … exporters. -- Trade openness ; Firms' Heterogeneity ; Productivity …