This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in U.S. manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000 … has a significant positive effect on productivity in the US, accounting for around 11 percent of productivity growth … during this period. Offshoring material inputs also has a positive effect on productivity, but the magnitude is smaller …

relationship between inventive activity and productivity at the level of U.S. metropolitan economies, using a patents database that … with and Granger causes higher productivity in metropolitan areas. A standard deviation increase in patents predicts a 6 … percent increase in productivity over 10 years. Higher-quality patents enhance the effect. We attempt to identify a cross …

evidence for sequential sorting into different export-modes according to firm-productivity: i) only the most productive firms …

, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this …

This paper examines how import penetration affects firms' productivity growth taking into account the heterogeneity in … product market regulation measures depending on firms' positions along the global distribution of productivity levels. The … heterogeneous effects of international competition and domestic product market regulation on firm-level productivity growth are …

-level total factor productivity using the Olley–Pakes approach suggests that processing firms are less productive than non …

This paper investigates the impact of trade liberalization on firm productivity by using both Chinese manufacturing … productivity (TFP) by adopting an augmented Olley-Pakes (1996) semi-parametric methodology to correct the simultaneity bias from … increases productivity for firms that produce complex goods (highly differentiated products). In contrast, we found that trade …

goods trade. This paper contributes to the discussion about the trade in intermediate goods and productivity by revisiting … business cycles and productivity and welfare at the current stage of Korean development. The major revision of the Basu (1995 … investigate the effects of misallocation and multiplier effects due to intermediate goods on industrial productivity and …