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 …

productivity, but this effect was stronger in the areas in which railways were already built. Moreover, railways helped industrial …

endowments and productivity, relative factor costs emerge as a source of real-income variation across countries. These are shaped … "residual" productivity required to explain the observed per-capita income differences by more than one half. …

evidence for sequential sorting into different export-modes according to firm productivity: i) only the most productive firms …

Does the concept of General Purpose Technologies help explain periods of faster and slower productivity advance in …, Britain, France, Germany and Japan and proceeds to evaluate the hypothesis of a productivity bonus as postulated by many … there was no generalized productivity boost from electrical power diffusion as postulated by many existing GPT models. The …

aggregate structural change. Rising manufacturing productivity and falling international trade costs further contribute to the … growth of large services firms in the densest urban areas, boosting services productivity and services exports, but also land …

pandemic wave) was associated with declines in consumption (-1.9%), investment (-1.2%), output (-2.4%), and productivity (-1 …

fixed offshoring costs. In the skill-abundant country, high-productivity firms offshore a larger range of labor …-intensive inputs to the labor-abundant countries than low-productivity firms. Differently from the traditional versions of factor … intensity across firms that is positively correlated with firm productivity. Using French firm-level data for the years 1996 to …