for competitiveness, labour market conditions and trade policy framework and performance. It also narrows the focus to …

for competitiveness, labour market conditions and trade policy framework and performance. It also narrows the focus to …

and indirect impact of trade costs on city productivity. I then construct an instrumental variable to examine the causal …This paper examines the impact of highway expansion on aggregate productivity growth and sectoral reallocation between … productivity growth by facilitating firm entry, exit and reallocation. I also find evidence that the national highway system led to …

across countries and sectors. On the other hand, opening to trade boosts individual firms’ productivity growth, via a number … empirical literature on firm heterogeneity and external trade. By innovatively exploiting rich cross-country micro … firm heterogeneity for trade of EU countries, showing a set of stylised facts. On the one hand, exporting firms are larger …

This study examines whether the relationship between exports and productivity growth differs across firm size. Using …. This study finds evidence of productivity differences between new exporters and non-exporters confirming the empirical … vary across firm size, with both small and large firms experiencing immediate and significant productivity gains upon entry …