Ahn, JaeBin; Dabla-Norris, Era; Duval, Romain; Hu, Bingjie - 2016
This paper reassesses the impact of trade liberalization on productivity. We build a new, unique database of effective … linkages. Our findings point to a dominant role of the indirect input market channel in fostering productivity gains. A 1 … percentage point decline in input tariffs is estimated to increase total factor productivity by about 2 percent in the sector …