Bühler, Stefan; Helm, Marco; Lechner, Michael - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2011
This paper estimates the effect of trade liberalization on growth, using plant-level data from Switzerland. We employ a … enacted in June 2002 ("Bilateral Agreements I") on the growth of Swiss plants. Using both a semi-parametric difference …-indifferences and a matching approach, we find that the liberalization of trade increased the growth of affected plants by 1-2 percent …