. Globalization is shown to induce heterogeneous responses across firms in terms of scope and productivity, some of which are …

This paper analyzes the welfare implications of international spillovers related to productivity gains, changes in …-equilibrium model with monopolistic competition, drawing a distinction between productivity gains from manufacturing efficiency and …

German and Austrian firm productivity. Unique matching of data from 1994 to 2003 suggests that tarif reductions raise parent … firm productivity significantly. A ten percentage point decrease in tarif rates can lead to total factor productivity gains …

This paper examines the total factor productivity performance (TFP) of the Philippines in the 1990s in order to provide … a picture of the extent of the productivity concern that needs to be addressed in the Medium-Term National Action Agenda … for Productivity, 2000-2004. The findings show that while the average TFP growth of the country has improved in the 1990s …

firms always have a higher market share, there is no monotonic relationship between firms' productivity level and their … effect. Therefore, the incentive to add more products weakens as productivity rises. This leads to Lemma 3 in Feenstra and Ma …

example, can make the effect of a traded-goods productivity improvement on the real exchange rate negative or positive, as … on the relationship between productivity and the real exchange rate. …

productivity differences, the model features pro t and wage differentials across industries. We use this setting to study the …

Recent evidence suggests that despite opening up a country for trade, the productivity gap between developed and … liberalization increases economic performance, that is average productivity and technology adoption, in both countries but that the … productivity gap widens. Simulations show that the welfare gap widens too. Opening up without sufficient access to external funding …

drives low-productivity firms from the small country's home market, replacing them with high-productivity exporters from … abroad. This endogenous policy response creates a selection effect that increases the average productivity of home firms when …