In this chapter we explore the popular but controversial idea that developing countries
benefit from abandoning policy neutrality vis-a-vis trade, FDI and resource allocation across …

Market size matters for innovation and hence for productivity. Improved access to foreign
markets will thus encourage firms to simultaneously export and invest in raising productivity …

A rapidly expanding literature on firm heterogeneity and firm level globalisation strategies
has developed over the last decade. There are new insights on why some firms export and …

We build a dynamic model of firm&level adjustment to trade liberalization that jointly in&
corporates the main salient features highlighted by recent empirical micro&level studies of …

Tracking individual workers across jobs after Brazil's trade liberalization in the 1990s shows
that tariff cuts trigger worker displacements, but neither exporters nor comparative …

Firms face competing needs to expand product variety and reduce production costs. Access
to larger markets enables innovation to reduce costs. Although firm scale increases, foreign …

European Union countries have implemented widespread reforms to product markets to
stimulate competition, innovation, and economic growth. We provide empirical evidence that …

This paper estimates the effect of antidumping protection on the productivity of domestic
import-competing firms. Two key results emerge. First, the productivity of the average firm …

In a model with search generated unemployment and heterogeneity on both sides of the
labor market, exporting firms are bigger and pay higher wages than other firms. Moreover …

Artificial intelligence (AI) technology has significantly transformed corporate behavior in the
energy sector by enhancing the capacity and efficiency of information transmission and big …