Eslava Mejía, Marcela; Haltiwanger, John C.; Kugler, … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
variation across sectors intariff changes after the Colombian trade reform to assess whether the impact of marketfundamentals on … ofproductivity with and without the trade reform shows that improvements in market selectionfrom trade reform help to weed out the … least productive plants and increase averageproductivity. In addition, we find that trade liberalization increases …