substantial productivity growth, but some evidence of trade discipline on the price-cost margins. A markup premium is however …

job destruction in low-productivity firms and job creation in high-productivity firms. In contrast, the net effect of … reductions in Chinese input tariffs is limited to job destruction in low-productivity ordinary exporters. …

This paper reassesses the impact of trade liberalization on productivity. We build a new, unique database of effective … linkages. Our findings point to a dominant role of the indirect input market channel in fostering productivity gains. A 1 … percentage point decline in input tariffs is estimated to increase total factor productivity by about 2 percent in the sector …

In the growth literature that investigates the effect of trade liberalization on productivity, nearly all studies … assume that trade policy is determined independently of productivity, hence it is exogenous. I show, both theoretically and … and the sectors with higher productivity gains are liberalized less even in the presence of a large unilateral …