A variety of empirical and theoretical trade papers have suggested and documented a positive impact of trade on the … productivity of firms. However, there is less consensus about the underlying mechanism at work. While trade papers focus on access … competition from abroad. The latter finding is at odds with most trade models, so I propose a model incorporating non …

Most microeconometric studies available for LAC have focused on measuring the direct impact of trade on plant … on tariff barriers as the only obstacle to international trade and integration. In this paper we use data from Brazil and … Chile to analyze how trade affects aggregate productivity through the process of resource reallocation and to explore not …

trade models with heterogeneous firms (Bernard et al., 2003; Melitz, 2003) suggest that international trade plays an … important role in this reallocative process. Focusing on a developing country, Chile, we use explicit measures of trade costs to … explore the existence of the channels suggested by these new trade models. We provide new key findings for developing …

Recent trade models with heterogeneous firms (Bernard et al., 2003 and Melitz, 2003) show how lower trade costs can … important policy implications regarding the role of trade reform in boosting aggregate productivity, particularly in industries …

property rights and ease of doing business) and two channels for technological spillovers (trade and FDI) in a panel of … relationship for both groups of countries. The moderation effects are larger for transition economies and trade-related spillovers …. Overall, these results suggest a trade-off for transition countries between pursuing institutional upgrades and increasing …

This paper studies the impact of trade liberalization in terms of tarif cuts within the Eastern European enlargement on …

This paper discusses the channels between openness and productivity and trade hampering factors. The stylized facts … markets and regulations in other countries are important trade barriers for European firms. From these outcomes it could be … derived that EU trade policies should be directed to deep integration with other countries, preferably by implementing …

This paper reviews the new approach to international trade based on firm heterogeneity in differentiated product … markets. This approach explains a variety of features exhibited in disaggregated trade data, including the higher productivity … of exporters relative to non-exporters, within-industry reallocations of resources following trade liberalization, and …