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

, 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 …

indirect effects of foreign direct investment on measured firm level productivity depend on a number of firm specific features … higher in the special economic zone aimed at attracting foreign capital to fasten the development of China’s own high tech …

impact on the domestic economy. China’s import tariffs differed tremendously across industry in the earlier years, but … identify the impact of increased import competition on firm performance and its contribution to the significant productivity …China’s policy-makers argued that WTO accession and the accompanying trade liberalization would have a beneficial …

Trefler (2004, AER) and others that industrial productivity increases more strongly in liberalized industries than in non … productivity increases more strongly in non-liberalized industries than in liberalized industries. …

relationship between economic integration and interregional productivity differences first increases and then decreases with market …

predicts that a fall in output tariffs lowers wages at import-competing firms, but boosts wages at exporting firms. Similarly …, a fall in input tariffs raises wages at import-using firms relative to those at firms that only source locally. Using …

markets. This approach explains a variety of features exhibited in disaggregated trade data, including the higher productivity … industry and firm productivity. …

firms, and the fact that larger firms supply more products than smaller firms, implies that standard productivity measures … are not independent of demand system assumptions and probably dramatically understate the relative productivity of the …

determine heterogeneity across firms in size and productivity in the same industry. We then incorporate these organisational … increase in aggregate productivity of an industry depending on which of these margins dominate. Trade may trigger firms to opt …