estimation results, we relate productivity estimates with import competition, using firm and product level measures of import … competition. We find that if productivity at the firm level tends to positively react to increased import competition, the multi … efficiency in producing that core product, in which it has a productivity advantage. However, when the degree of foreign …

In this paper we confirm the existence of improvements of firm productivity when domestic upstream and downstream firms … intermediate input usage) intensively. Chinaś accession to the WTO, which in the case of Belgium reduced trade barriers to China …, help us confirm that these inter-industry productivity improvements can also be generated form a quasi-trade liberalization …

. We examine multi-product exporters in the small open economy of Belgium, considering their importance and the … relationship between the margins of trade and firm productivity, both across firms and within firms over time. In addition, we … and the value of CAT exports responds differently to variation in firm productivity and trade costs than does the export …

This paper determines the relative importance of technical efficiency and reallocation for aggregate productivity … of productivity differences across firms. More precisely, we have information on human capital such as the level of … productivity growth by applying the decomposition introduced by Petrin and Levinsohn (2012). The outcome of this exercise will not …