products with intermediate productivity. Shocks to trade costs and technology affect the endogenous decision to export or … product-level. We find that the most productive firms sell core varieties via foreign direct investment (FDI) and export … produce abroad at the product-level and, in turn, the relative productivity between parents and affiliates …

Many policymakers view power outages as a major constraint on firm productivity in developing countries. Yet empirical … the long-run general-equilibrium effects of power outages on productivity. Outages lower productivity in the model by …

and their consequences on average productivity and welfare in a trade model with heterogeneous firms. We find that the … decisions, having an impact on the average productivity of the economy and, ultimately, on welfare …

productivity differentials: in equilibrium, firms that employ workers with comparatively scarcer skills, other things equal, export … of predicting a positive correlation between firms' export intensity, the price of their exports, and the wages they pay …

A fundamental result in the theory of commodity taxation is that taxes increase consumer prices and reduce supply …

in a trade model of multi-product firms and show that producers face tougher competition in export markets with lower … corporate tax rates. This competitive effect induces firms to reduce the number of exported products and to skew their export …

domestic sales rises towards core products, and that export activity increases …