Market Size, Division of Labor, and Firm Productivity

Thomas Chaney, Ralph Ossa

NBER Working Paper No. 18243
Issued in July 2012

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We are grateful to Pol Antras, Holger Breinlich, Alejandro Cunat, Elhanan Helpman, Gianmarco Ottaviano, Henry Overman, Stephen Redding, and Tony Venables. We also thank the editor, Robert W. Staiger, and two anonymous referees, for their thoughtful comments. All remaining errors are ours. This work extends the second chapter of Ossa’s Ph.D. dissertation originally entitled "Trade Liberalization, Outsourcing, and Firm Productivity". The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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