The impact of trade on intra-industry reallocations and aggregate industry productivity

Econometrica

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1695-1725

  Melitz, Marc J ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Firm dynamics; Firm heterogeneity; Intra industry trade; Selection

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; INVESTMENTS; PRODUCTIVITY; SALES;

DOMESTIC MARKET;

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS;

EID: 0242583203     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0262.00467     Document Type: Article

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