output and average productivity, with stronger positive productivity effects for newly imported intermediate inputs. However …

We use transaction-level US import data to compare firms from virtually all countries in the world competing in a …

In this paper, I investigate the welfare effects that developed countries experience after productivity improvements … asymmetries in technology. I model the technology advantage of the developed country, assuming that the productivity distribution … statistics of the US economy, the model predicts that the country with better technology has a higher productivity cut-off level …

manufacturing firms. The theory underlying our model is consistent with Melitz (2003). A nonlinear structural estimation procedure …

this model we identify a formal relationship between international trade, productivity, and wages. We then examine the … trivariate relationship between trade, growth in total factor productivity (TFP), and the skill premium in a vector …

provides evidence of a significant and negative relationship between total public debt and productivity growth. Looking at the … specific channels through which high debt affects productivity growth and the allocation of resources in Jamaica, the study … excessively on a few maturing sectors with limited scope for productivity growth. Furthermore, public investment has been crowded …

This paper addresses the lack of connection between theory and empirics in most export diversification … the level of technology and country size assessed with respect to the rest of the world. Relative export diversification … is an outcome of two forces: a relative productivity change (technological progress) and a relative country size change …