Do trade reforms that significantly reduce import barriers lead to faster economic growth? In
the twenty-five years since Rodríguez and Rodrik's (2000) critical survey of empirical work …

Countries that trade more with each other exhibit higher business cycle correlation. This
paper examines the mechanisms underlying this relationship using a large cross-country …

Firm size follows Zipf's Law, a very fat-tailed distribution that implies a few large firms
account for a disproportionate share of overall economic activity. This distribution of firm size …

This paper examines the phenomenon of the “Solow paradox” in China using the Annual
Survey of Industrial Production database and the China Customs Records dataset from …

Is corruption in China detrimental or beneficial to firm productivity and by what channels?
Opinions concerning this issue differ and analyses rarely consider import liberalization and …

This paper disentangles the impacts of trade liberalization on firm market and production
decisions. Using firm-product data for Ecuador, we exploit exogenous tariff changes at entry …

We analyze the impact of input tariffs on the export status and export performance of
heterogeneous processing firms. Using a theoretical model with downstream firms exhibiting …

This article analyses the impact that R&D expenditures and intra-and inter-industry
externalities have on the performance of Spanish firms. Despite the extensive literature …

This paper empirically investigates the impact of tariffs when production is organized in
global value chains. Using global input-output matrices, we construct four different tariff …

本文在异质性企业分析框架下, 构建了贸易自由化下中间品进口与企业技术选择的理论模型,
分析了中间品贸易自由化对企业技术选择的影响机理, 并利用2000-2006 …