id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt zc77sn03333 Jing Wang Essays on International Trade and Financial Frictions 1904 .txt text/plain 397 14 25 This dissertation studies the role of firm heterogeneity in (1) explaining the impact of unilateral trade liberalization on industry labor productivity, (2) reconciling micro estimates that attribute an important effect of credit constraints on export collapse with macro findings that the impacts are minimal, and (3) interpreting the relationship between firm productivity and liquidity management when financing is costly. The first chapter theoretically and empirically investigates the impact of trade liberalization on industry labor productivity (i.e. output per worker). cache/zc77sn03333.txt txt/zc77sn03333.txt