export their goods and whether to use imported intermediates. The model highlights mechanisms whereby import policies affect … aggregate productivity, resource allocation, and industry export activity along both the extensive and intensive margins. Using … counterfactual experiments to assess quantitatively the positive and normative effects of barriers to trade in import and export …

relevant positive relationship between the costs of imported inputs and the export of the final goods. We use a simple Cournot … and the export of the final goods. We further show that a lower cost of imported inputs may reduce the consumer surplus …

. To build a productivity link between imports and exports, we also estimate the contribution of import scope to … import scope is the change in productivity. Furthermore, the asymmetry change in the two fixed costs explains most of the …This study designs a method to estimate the productivity of exported products by combining custom and firm survey data …

reflect physical productivity. Within-firm productivity changes from export entry are computed using a difference …-in-differences matching estimator. The findings show that, over a six-year period, the difference in productivity growth between export … international markets have largely been understated in the export-productivity empirical literature. This difference in productivity …