This paper shows how trade liberalization can have an asymmetric effect on heterogeneous firms. It develops a neo …-Schumpeterian growth model predicting that the impact of liberalization on economic performance is positive “on average”, but more advanced … liberalization spurred productivity growth on average. However, the empirical analysis goes beyond estimating the average effect of …

trade liberalization on the evolution of India’s pattern of trade specialization. Industries where import tariffs have been … reduced the most have experienced the highest increase in specialization. Moreover, trade liberalization has helped India … enjoying the most robust growth in global demand. Liberalization policies have been instrumental in enhancing the international …

The liberalization process undertaken by the Indian economy in recent times has thrown up many challenges. This paper … liberalization was ushered in 1991. This paper investigates the efficiency of firms during the period 1991 to 2001, using the concept …

Conventional explanations for the post-1991 growth of India’s manufacturing sector focus on goods trade liberalization … index of services liberalization resulted in a productivity increase of 11.7 percent for domestic firms and 13.2 percent for …

liberalization within the negative list between Pakistan and India following Pakistan’s decision to grant most favoured nation (MFN …

There exists a choice of negotiating the exclusions in tariff liberalization: negative or positive listing. The extent … preferential treatment. However, as there is no predetermined method of expansion of liberalization content during phase-in periods …

This paper examines the political complexities of retail liberalization in a developing country such as India in the … overall context of liberalization of trade in services. Drawing on the experiences of other developing countries and India … related to retail liberalization and design a policy that is non-discriminatory and transparent. Appropriate policies should …

and non-tariff barriers (NTBs). Our results indicate that the welfare effects of the liberalization we consider (i …

This paper evaluates the robustness of trade liberalization in Central Europe and the role of the Europe Agreements …