subsidies and lump sum government transfers of net tariff revenue. We calibrate our economy to data on South Korea and the OECD …

This paper examines the impact of telecommunications liberalization in Africa on both sectoral performance and economic …

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 …

liberalization and globalization are forging ahead? And, what sort of problems have to be dealt with to make it possible? To answer … liberalization of investment, trade and financial services, and exports. Section 3 to 5 cover three periods between 1971 and 1995 and … domestic and foreign investors in the wake of the liberalization of investment, trade and financial services, and polices to …

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 …

As part of the Single Market Program the European Commission commanded the liberalization and regulatory harmonization … productivity of European network firms. Exploiting the variation in the timing and degree of liberalization efforts across … countries and industries, we find that liberalization increased firm-level productivity but had no reallocation impact. Based on …

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 …