small losses to Armenia primarily due to a loss of productivity from lost varieties of technologies from the Rest of the …

small losses to Armenia primarily due to a loss of productivity from lost varieties of technologies from the Rest of the …

Chinese government in international negotiations. Thus, at least in the trade sphere, the rise of China as a consumer market …

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

) and endogenous productivity effects from services. I begin with a small stylized model to help understand the fundamental … accession that fails to incorporate FDI in services and endogenous productivity effects from additional services would yield an …

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 …

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 …