Topic:Within-Firm Product Reallocation and Productivity Gains from Trade

Lecturer:

Professor Lu Yi,Chairman of the Department of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University; Winner of the National Talent Program, winner of the first China Young Economist Award, and the first Sun Shangqing Young Scholar Award for Developing Knowledge Research and Exchange; Author of ESI highly cited papers,

Ranked in the top 5% of global economists by RePEC for nearly a decade. His research areas mainly include China's economy, public finance, and global economic governance. The research results are published in Review ofEconomics and Statistics, Journal of Public Economics , Journal of International Economics, Journal ofDevelopment Economics, Management Science, as well as Chinese Social Sciences, Economic Research, Management World and other top journals at home and abroad.

Abstract:

Westudy the within-firm product reallocation gains from trade.Exploring one product charged by antidumping duties, we find that multiproduct exporters significantly increase the exports of unaffected incumbent products and add newly exported products.Theoretically, productivity gains by product reallocation rely on the productivity ranking of the antidumping product and the correlation between product productivity and product trade costs.We then develop a framework to quantify the gains, involving two empirically measurable sufficient statistics.We find no effect ofantidumping on physical productivity but a significantly effect on revenue productivity, suggesting the role of productivitymeasurement intheempirical investigation.

Time: April 3,20249:30

Venue: B423,ZhixinBuilding,CentralCampus