This paper has reviewd productivity in the auto industry from three quite different approaches and then suggested and implemented a fouth approach. The appproach used is the only econometruc approach to measuring firm productivity that permits reporting firm-level productivity results, and it...

We will never know how Nurkse'd5s views of trade and development would have evolved, had he been able to observe the contrasting experiences of developing countries over subsequent years. However, with the benefit of hindsight, we can ask how well the policies and the performances of developing...

Almost from its inception as the European Economic Community, the European Union has excited the hope if not the expectation that it would generate dynamic gains from trade, including perhaps a permanent increase in the rates of growth of participating countries. This paper examines the...

This paper is about jobs and international trade. It is about researchers can learn fo relationship between the two using firm-level data.

Despite considerable theoretical work predicting that product quality plays an important role in determining the direction of international trade, there is no empirical evidence on the existence and magnitude of such a quality e.ect on trade. In this paper, I provide a framework to estimate the...