costs, any difference in export performances could arise because of higher productivity of labor. The paper tests whether …This paper analyzes the differences in the export behavior of domestic and multinational firms in the Indian auto … multinational firms, it is not just cheap labor in terms of low wage rate per worker, but low wage in relation to productivity of …

Recent Melitz-type (2003) intra-industry heterogonous trade models argue that a firm's productivity has significant … effects on the firm's exports. This paper examines how a firms credit constraints as well as its productivity affect its … export decisions. We imbed the firm's credit constraints into a Melitz-type general-equilibrium model by endogenizing the …

reductions generate productivity gain via competition, whereas processing export does so via spillovers. Using mostly …This paper explores how processing trade, jointly with tariff reduction, can improve a firm's productivity. Tariff …% increase in a firm's productivity gain. In addition, processing firms enjoy significant productivity gains via spillovers, with …

. Second, growth accounting analysis reveals that information technology has not contributed changes of productivity growth … the productivity growth until the late 1980s. Third, estimation of the production function model proves that IT capital …

reductions generate productivity gain via competition, whereas processing export does so via spillovers. Using mostly …This paper explores how processing trade, jointly with tariff reduction, can improve a firm's productivity. Tariff …% increase in a firm's productivity gain. In addition, processing firms enjoy significant productivity gains via spillovers, with …

spending cuts and productivity improvements, tax reforms, and asset sales. We find that a policy that reduces the cost of …-targeted spending on infrastructure to deliver long run productivity improvements. Given New Zealands longer term growth challenge, any … fiscal efforts to stabilise the economy and avoid a more severe recession should have productivity at the centre of the …

productivity. This paper documents the changes in rice productivity, policy and institutions in the last 100 years and identifies … the technological change that may have affected rice productivity. One hundred years has totally changed rice production … practices and improved productivity. Technical innovations that helped improved rice productivity include irrigation, pest …