economies of scale to sort out the rich interactions between TBT reform, input diversity, firm-level productivity, and aggregate … productivity. We calibrate the model for 14 industries in order to clarify the theoretical ambiguities. Overall, our results tend …

Trefler (2004, AER) and others that industrial productivity increases more strongly in liberalized industries than in non … productivity increases more strongly in non-liberalized industries than in liberalized industries. …

drives low-productivity firms from the small country's home market, replacing them with high-productivity exporters from … abroad. This endogenous policy response creates a selection effect that increases the average productivity of home firms when …

We investigate theoretically and empirically the role of wholesalers in mediating the productivity effects of trade … liberalization. Intermediaries provide indirect access to foreign produced inputs. The productivity effects of input tariff cuts on … firms experience productivity gains from reducing input tariffs if trade intermediation of foreign inputs within their …

their productivity draws at the entry stage and explore the implications in closed and open economy. By allowing firms to … productivity with a shape parameter that depends on industry-level characteristics. A novel result is that export opportunities, by …

markets. This approach explains a variety of features exhibited in disaggregated trade data, including the higher productivity … industry and firm productivity. …