"Feenstra and Kee study the link between export product variety and country productivity based on data from 34 … productivity gains. In addition, as suggested in the literature, export product variety depends on trade costs, such as tariffs … export variety on country productivity. Empirical evidence supports their hypothesis. Overall, while export variety accounts …

Feenstra and Kee study the link between export product variety and country productivity based on data from 34 … productivity gains. In addition, as suggested in the literature, export product variety depends on trade costs, such as tariffs … export variety on country productivity. Empirical evidence supports their hypothesis. Overall, while export variety accounts …

sectoral export variety on country productivity. The effects are estimated in a translog GDP function system based on data for … 34 countries from 1982 to 1997. Country productivity is constructed and export variety is shown to be significant …. Instruments such as tariffs, transport costs, and distance are shown to affect country productivity through export variety, and …

The authors study the link between export product variety and country productivity based on data from 34 industrial and … productivity. Empirical evidence supports their hypothesis. Overall, while export variety accounts for only 2 percent of cross …-country productivity differences, it explains 13 percent of within-country productivity growth. A 10 percent increase in the export variety …

This paper provides evidence on the monopolistic competition model with heterogeneous firms and endogenous productivity …. We show that this model has a well-defined GDP function where relative export variety enters positively, and estimate … this function over 48 countries from 1980 to 2000. Average export variety to the United States increases by 3.3% per year …

quantities, variety and productivity. Under constant elasticity of demand, each firm prices above its average cost, yet we show …

of total factor productivity (TFP) - and equivalently of real per capita income or welfare - as a smaller fraction of … more input varieties available, the average productivity of firms is lower as greater market size protects inefficient …