productivity leaving aside other effects that arise through the market selection process. Additionally, most studies have focused … Chile to analyze how trade affects aggregate productivity through the process of resource reallocation and to explore not …

An increasing body of evidence indicates that an important share of aggregate productivity growth, in both developed … and developing countries, arises from the reallocation of resources across plants of different productivity levels. New …

spur aggregate productivity by forcing lower productivity firms out of the market, cutting off the lower tail of the … productivity distribution. In this paper we find significant heterogeneity regarding this impact across different industries. In … important policy implications regarding the role of trade reform in boosting aggregate productivity, particularly in industries …