their productivity draws at the entry stage and explore the implications in closed and open economy. By allowing firms to … productivity with a shape parameter that depends on industry-level characteristics. A novel result is that export opportunities, by …

inward trade barriers affect productivity. The production function of Brazilian manufacturers is estimated at the ISIC3 two …-digit level under various alternatives, including an extension of Olley and Pakes' (1996) procedure. Firm-level productivity is … inferred and then related to trade. Findings suggest that (1) foreign competition pressures firms to raise productivity …

We investigate theoretically and empirically the role of wholesalers in mediating the productivity effects of trade … liberalization. Intermediaries provide indirect access to foreign produced inputs. The productivity effects of input tariff cuts on … firms experience productivity gains from reducing input tariffs if trade intermediation of foreign inputs within their …

Starting from the premise that productivity is heterogeneous across firms, Melitz (2003) explains why individual … productivity is key in determining the capability of a firm to export. In this paper we build a model along Melitz's lines to show … international markets. We show that firms with low productivity may still be able to penetrate foreign markets provided they have …

of total factor productivity (TFP) - and equivalently of real per capita income or welfare - as a smaller fraction of … more input varieties available, the average productivity of firms is lower as greater market size protects inefficient …

margins. We show that either domestic or foreign trade liberalization reduces the range of exports and the range of domestic … output and average productivity, with stronger positive productivity effects for newly imported intermediate inputs. However …

job destruction in low-productivity firms and job creation in high-productivity firms. In contrast, the net effect of … reductions in Chinese input tariffs is limited to job destruction in low-productivity ordinary exporters. …

industry productivity. For this purpose we develop a reciprocal dumping model of international trade with heterogeneous firms … expected industry productivity. The central results of the paper regarding firm and industry level R&D spending differ … significantly from the case of homogeneous firms. -- international trade ; firm heterogeneity ; R&D ; productivity ; market …