identified. Our point estimates differ from those of existing methods and changes in our preferred productivity estimator perform … relatively well in predicting future export growth …

improve the business conditions in one country have negative productivity and welfare effects on the trading partner. Second …

understand the link between institutions and an economy's productivity distribution …

extensive and the intensive margins and the connection between exporting dynamics and plant-level total factor productivity … and account for a small share of gross, industry-level changes in exports, employment, output, and productivity. The … dynamics at the intensive margin is intense and heterogeneous. Plant mobility across deciles of export distribution has an …

firms to leave the market, thereby affecting aggregate productivity. Since wage and productivity responses are endogenous …, our model is well suited to study the impacts of trade integration on aggregate productivity and factor prices. Using … Canada-U.S. interregional trade data, we first estimate a system of theory-based gravity equations under the general …

We use plant output and input prices to decompose the profit margin into four parts: productivity, demand shocks, mark … the impact of productivity, and other market fundamentals, on plant exit. A dynamic simulation that compares the … distribution of productivity with and without the trade reform shows that improvements in market selection from trade reform help …

export status and provides an explanation for the lackluster average productivity performance of exporting plants … economic environment and their contributions to aggregate productivity growth in the period following the implementation of the … North American Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In all industries, an overwhelming share of aggregate productivity growth is …