This study analyzes empirically the effects of import competition on firm productivity (TFPQ) using administrative firm … positive incentives for firms to invest in productivity improvement, whereas import competition from middle- and low …. Costly investment in productivity appears feasible reaction to such type of competition and we find no evidence for …

launching new products on the export market, and overall technical changes captured by total factor productivity growth. We …

to influence productivity. To this end we estimate plant-level production functions augmented by regional characteristics …

There is a substantial heterogeneity in productivity when comparing individual firms. However, even when heterogeneity …

potential existence of a continental bias in world trade flows on a sample of 182 countries over the period 1990-2006. Using … traditional estimation techniques and recent developments in the econometric analysis of the gravity equation, we find robust …

Llull presents a cross-country analysis of the impact of immigration on productivity and employment. Push …