restrictions on exports of Japanese cars to Community markets are modeled as having an anti-competitive effect. The model is …

What is the effect of imports on productivity? To answer this question, we estimate a structural model of producers … through imports advancing firm level productivity, while the remaining 50% comes from the reallocation of capital and labour … heterogenous firms, producers choose to import or purchase domestically varieties of intermediate inputs. Imports affect firm …

mechanism through which imports increase productivity, which may help explain why a number of studies find firm …This paper examines the interdependence between innovation and imports of intermediates, and their joint impact on … productivity. We do so by developing a quantitative model with heterogeneous firms and international trade where firms can invest …

The comovement between exports and productivity observed in many countries suggests a direct link between these two … suggest that exports, productivity and the terms of trade move together in the long run in all countries except the United … attempts to examine this relationship, while recent trade theory suggests that the relationship between trade and productivity …

efficiency. First, treatment firms have higher productivity and quality after accounting for rug specifications. Second, when …

We explore the relationship between innovation activity, productivity, and exports using a panel of Spanish … innovation seems to explain the positive association between exports and productivity for this group of firms. For small non … explaining the positive export-productivity association documented in prior research. For the sample of small innovating firms …

distribution costs in the export market, high and low productivity firms react differently to a depreciation . Whereas high … productivity firms optimally raise their markup rather than the volume they export, low productivity firms choose the opposite … aggregate impact of exchange rate movements. The presence of fixed costs to export means that only high productivity firms can …

. Examining the sources of labour productivity growth in Mexican manufacturing, however, does not provide support for this … conclusion. Although we find that labour productivity levels vary almost in direct relation to establishment size, labour … productivity growth shows no systematic variation by size class. In fact, small establishments have had the same rate of labour …

(MC) sector in which firms may have heterogeneous productivity levels. Domestic protection brings gains from expanding the …

We estimate the effect of international trade on average labour productivity across countries. Our empirical approach … empirical grounds. In contrast to the marginally significant and non-robust effects of trade on productivity found previously … productivity. Our finding is that trade works through labour efficiency, while institutional quality works through physical and …