productivity (TFP) at firm level using a flexible Levinsohn-Petrin semiparametric method, which allows us to address the …International trade has been stated as one of the most important mean of improving firms' productivity, being the … contribute to local firm's productivity performance by incorporating better inputs in their production processes. This paper …

mechanism, but also to efficiency improvements following the export activity. We find heterogeneous post entry effects with … propensity score matching and Differences in Differences techniques. -- Self selection ; Post-entry effects ; Export ; Matching …

In this paper we show that the relationship between trade liberalization and fi rm productivity is sensitive to the … method used to estimate the production function. We estimate the productivity of Colombian manufacturing plants using the … come to surprisingly different conclusions about firm productivity growth after the liberalization. Results from a growth …

This paper tests some of the predictions of recent advances in trade theory that have …

unobserved productivity factor on which firms condition the input demand of the observed inputs. Our model of unobserved …

-setting power) and (iii) revenue productivity. We apply this framework to analyze whether the pricing behavior of firms in product … find export status to be positively correlated with both product market power (markups) and market power consolidated on …

-setting power) and (iii) revenue productivity. We apply this framework to analyze whether the pricing behavior of firms in product … find export status to be positively correlated with both product market power (markups) and market power consolidated on …

The recovery from the current deep recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic will require raising productivity through … competition, firms face weak incentives to become more productive. Sizeable shares of labour and capital are trapped in low-productivity … by high trade barriers that have precluded Brazil from the opportunities that an increasingly integrated world economy …

and productivity impacts on manufacturing sectors in Senegal. Using unique firm-level panel data for the period 1998 … - 2011, we estimate productivity and exporting dynamics, controlling for other unobserved effects, and using General Method … of Moments. Our results indicate evidence both that the most efficient firms self-select for entry into the export market …

This paper analyzes the reallocation effects generated by dynamics of exporting firms adopting DOPD productivity … turbulent. The reallocation effects generated by firm dynamics contributes almost half of productivity improvement. It mainly …