This paper surveys the recent body of work in economics on the importance of global value
chains (GVCs) in sha** international trade flows and production patterns. On the empirical …

Global value chains (GVCs) have revolutionized production processes and many
companies no longer produce goods and services entirely in one single country or within …

This paper examines some of the recent literature on the estimation of production functions.
We focus on techniques suggested in two recent papers, Olley and Pakes (1996) and …

To cope with the stricter environmental regulation, manufacturing firms need to carry out
pollution reduction activities and change their optimal production decisions, which may …

This paper estimates the productivity gains from reducing tariffs on final goods and from
reducing tariffs on intermediate inputs. Lower output tariffs can increase productivity by …

In this paper, we develop a method to estimate markups using plant-level production data.
Our approach relies on cost-minimizing producers and the existence of at least one variable …

New goods play a central role in many trade and growth models. We use detailed trade and
firm-level data from India to investigate the relationship between declines in trade costs …

This paper exploits India's rapid, comprehensive, and externally imposed trade reform to
establish a causal link between changes in tariffs and firm productivity. Pro-competitive …

We estimate a model of importers in Hungarian microdata and conduct counterfactual
analysis to investigate the effect of imported inputs on productivity. We find that importing all …

We study the nonparametric identification of gross output production functions under the
environment of the commonly employed proxy variable methods. We show that applying …