EPPs across sectors, and hence across countries, can be explained by the variation in productivity dispersion, trade costs …Why is it that exporter productivity premia (EPP) differ so widely in size? We take this question to the theory and to … the data. We derive the sectoral EPP in a standard heterogeneous firms trade model and apply the insights from the model …

performance. The result shows that total factor productivity (TFP) played a significant role in the growth of some industries …

This paper presents a framework to assess the relative importance of three key sources of productivity growth that … research on international trade focuses on: (i) inter-industry specialisation; (ii) intra-industry reallocation of resources …-industry reallocations are the most important source of growth in aggregate total factor productivity, reflecting in particular the …

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an unprecedented collapse in global economic activity and trade. The crisis has also … have also contributed to increasing productivity and long-term growth. We explore empirically the impact of GVC … participation on productivity in Estonia using firm-level data from 2000 to 2016. We find that higher GVC participation at the …

sector was only 22%. In order to examine the role of supply-side factors, total factor productivity growth was estimated in …. Using Data Envelopment Analysis at the firm level, it was found that both these sectors experienced productivity growth … above 10% after 2000. High domestic demand and high productivity growth largely explain the resilience of India’s services …

trade theories treat important forces such as the distribution of productivity within the economy as exogenous. We argue …Theories of international trade have severe difficulties in explaining why, despite i) substantial differences in … evidence for factor-proportions trade is rather weak. We propose a simple explanation of this well known finding: standard …

Global Manufacturing and International Supply Chains changed the way trade and international economics are understood … dynamics, privileging a trade perspective: the definition of comparative advantages and the potential for value-chain up-grading …

productivity, while import liberalization has ambiguous effects. Resource misallocation can either amplify, dampen or reverse the … gains from trade. Using model-consistent measures and unique new data on 14 European countries and 20 industries in 1998 … productivity gains. Guided by theory, we provide evidence consistent with these effects operating through reallocations across …