Quantifying productivity is a conditio sine qua non for empirical analysis in a number of
research fields. The identification of the measure that best fits with the specific goals, as well …

We exploit a policy‐induced exogenous surge in China's college‐educated workforce that
started in 2003 to identify the impact of human capital on productivity. Using a difference‐in …

This paper characterizes the dynamic empirical properties of country export capabilities in
order to inform modelling of the long-run behavior of comparative advantage. The starting …

This paper studies how a country's export diversification varies across destination markets. It
develops an extension of the Romalis (2004) model which yields two testable predictions …

In this paper, we examine a number of indices used for measuring comparative advantages
of a country in international trade for a good and propose the new net comparative …

Using a simultaneous equations model, this paper aims to analyse the endogenous
relationship among trade liberalisation, inward foreign direct investment and productivity …

Previous studies yield ambiguous results from using country-level indices of intellectual
property rights (IPR) protections to test their relation to foreign direct investment (FDI). This …

Pakistan's GDP growth has slowed to a barely 3 percent rate that is economically and
politically unacceptable. The country's technological backwardness, its low-level of …

We introduce a novel methodology to measure the relative TFP of the tradeable sector
across countries, based on the relationship between trade and TFP in the model of Eaton …

We use transaction-level US import data to compare firms from virtually all countries in the
world competing in a single destination market. First, we decompose countries' sales into the …