investigate the relation between firms' trading activities (importing, exporting or both) and productivity. We find important self … average productivity premia of exporters. …

responsible for 30% of the growth in aggregate total factor productivity in Hungary during the 1990s. About 50% of this effect is …What is the effect of imports on productivity? To answer this question, we estimate a structural model of producers … productivity through expanding variety as well as improved input quality. The model leads to a production function where the total …

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 …

job destruction in low-productivity firms and job creation in high-productivity firms. In contrast, the net effect of … reductions in Chinese input tariffs is limited to job destruction in low-productivity ordinary exporters. …

central hubs and peripheral countries and sectors, and examine how these changes impact firm productivity. Using cross … productivity growth of smaller firms, nonfrontier businesses, and of firms in smaller economies and in post-2004 EU member … (centrality weighted) average productivity of buyers matters for the productivity of firms in our data overall, however this is …

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 …