Trade liberalization and productivity growth: new evidence from the Turkish rubber industry
This paper empirically examines the effects of a change in foreign trade regime on productivity growth. Based on a Generalized Leontief factor demand function system, total factor productivity growth (TFPG) rates are calculated for the Turkish rubber industry during a substantial trade liberalization in the 1980s: TFPG was significantly higher following trade liberalization. Technological change was the major contributor to this growth. When a panel data estimation technique is used to explain technological change, the effects of trade liberalization become clearer: a one percentage point increase in the protection level led to more than a one percentage point (1.27) decline in the technological change rate.
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1997
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Authors: | Gokcekus, Omer |
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Applied Economics. - Taylor & Francis Journals, ISSN 0003-6846. - Vol. 29.1997, 5, p. 639-645
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Taylor & Francis Journals |
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