manufacturing firms matched with custom transactions for the years 2000-2006, we measure sizable differences in productivity and … domestic market. A counterfactual analysis suggests that eliminating these subsidies would result in a welfare gain for China …

still produces. In this case, the operating productivity cutoff is lowered while the exporting cutoff increases in the face …

from the 2002 wave of the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey collected by the World Bank for China. The … exporters, firms exporting all their output, observed in China, from 25.7% in 2002 to 11.1% in 2013. Our results indicate that a … in China increases by 1.76% while real income in the rest of the world falls by 0.59%. …

country's relative size or relative average productivity. Furthermore, in the two-country Nash equilibrium, tariffs turn out … of zero tariffs. Similarly, cross-country productivity or size convergence increases the global welfare loss due to non …

Why is it that exporter productivity premia (EPP) differ so widely in size? We take this question to the theory and to … EPPs across sectors, and hence across countries, can be explained by the variation in productivity dispersion, trade costs …