identify the impact of increased import competition on firm performance and its contribution to the significant productivity … that imports took away market share from domestic firms. Furthermore, much of the effects on sectoral productivity come … firms in particular, which can be rationalized by an increase in the minimum productivity threshold needed to survive in …

between firm size, scope and productivity. More efficient firms become exporters, but not all exporters are large and not all …

quantity and price information to disentangle markups from quantity-based productivity, and then compute marginal costs by … dividing observed prices by the estimated markups. We use India’s trade liberalization episode to examine how firms adjust …

, scope, and productivity. In the model, firms are heterogeneous in how well they cope with expanding their product range. The …-discount puzzle" found in the data. Globalization induces a merger wave that leads to an improvement in average productivity. This … improvement is not due to selection effects but rather due to product-level productivity effects. The model predicts that …

detailed firm-level data from India, we provide the first evidence on the patterns of multi-product firm production in a large …-section, multi-product firms in India look remarkably similar to their U.S. counterparts, confirming the predictions of recent … churning - particularly product rationalization - is far less common in India. We thus find little evidence of "creative …

the context of India's 1991 tariff reforms. Overall, in the 1990s, rural India experienced a dramatic increase in … imply that roughly half of India's rise in schooling and a third of the fall in child labor during the 1990s can be …

costs, any difference in export performances could arise because of higher productivity of labor. The paper tests whether … multinational firms, it is not just cheap labor in terms of low wage rate per worker, but low wage in relation to productivity of … more than the productivity of the labor. Among other factors discussed, of the reasons is the low value added nature of the …