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

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

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

In the growth literature that investigates the effect of trade liberalization on productivity, nearly all studies … assume that trade policy is determined independently of productivity, hence it is exogenous. I show, both theoretically and … and the sectors with higher productivity gains are liberalized less even in the presence of a large unilateral …

in a model of network formation with suppliers of heterogeneous productivity and matchability, buyers of heterogeneous … productivity, and intermediaries that reduce matching costs for a brokerage fee. Empirical evidence on trade activity across firms …

and countries. Firms' export decisions depend on a combination of firm “productivity” and firm-product-country “consumer … tastes,' both of which are stochastic and unknown prior to the payment of a sunk cost of entry. Higher-productivity firms … export a wider range of products to a larger set of countries than lower-productivity firms. Trade liberalization induces …

, calibrate it to the year 2000 using the World Input-Output Database, and perform a counterfactual analysis of China’s WTO … accession. We find that China's WTO entry accounts for about 45% of the decrease in China's value added exports to exports ratio … results imply that China's WTO accession was the driving force behind the strengthening of production networks with its …