Imported Inputs and Productivity

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 input varieties would increase a firm's revenue productivity by 22 percent, about one-half of which is due to impe...

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Published in:The American economic review 2015-12, Vol.105 (12), p.3660-3703
Main Authors: Halpern, László, Koren, Miklós, Szeidl, Adam
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Importers
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Industrial productivity
International economics
International trade
Productivity
Revenue
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Fixed costs
Importers
Imports
Industrial productivity
International economics
International trade
Productivity
Revenue
Tariffs
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