Product Differentiation, Multiproduct Firms, and Estimating the Impact of Trade Liberalization on Productivity.

This paper studies whether removing barriers to trade induces efficiency gains for producers. Like almost all empirical work which relies on a production function to recover productivity measures, I do not observe physical output at the firm level. Therefore, it is imperative to control for unobserv...

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Publicado en:	Econometrica Vol. 79; no. 5; pp. 1407 - 1452
Autor principal:	De Loecker, Jan
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Wiley-Blackwell September 2011
Materias:	Mathematical models Industrial productivity Mathematical models of marketing Product differentiation Free trade
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