Ahn, JaeBin; Choi, Moon Jung - 2016
productivity; and larger firms are more likely to use imported inputs. As a result, we find that firm-level import decisions … explain a non-trivial fraction of aggregate productivity fluctuations in Korea over the period between 2006 and 2012. Main … findings of this paper suggest a possible link between the recent global productivity slowdown and the global trade slowdown …
