The paper studies the impact of trade liberalization on competition and productivity. Competition is the main channel … through which trade liberalization affects economic performance. Competition fosters innovation and technology adoption which …

between firm behavior and competition is estimated with price cost margin (price minus marginal costs over price) as indicator … of competition and profitability. The model is extended to assess the impact of imports on competition using import … and reduction of tariffs affect competition in the cement industry? Are imports effective in disciplining domestic firms …

During the last two decades, the world has experienced a remarkable process of disinflation, with average inflation … rates in industrialized countries falling by 10 percentage points and an even sharper decline of the mean rate of inflation … in developing countries. Parallel to the decline in inflation rates, a tremendous increase in economic integration …

. Globalization is shown to induce heterogeneous responses across firms in terms of scope and productivity, some of which are …

This paper examines the total factor productivity performance (TFP) of the Philippines in the 1990s in order to provide … a picture of the extent of the productivity concern that needs to be addressed in the Medium-Term National Action Agenda … for Productivity, 2000-2004. The findings show that while the average TFP growth of the country has improved in the 1990s …

German and Austrian firm productivity. Unique matching of data from 1994 to 2003 suggests that tarif reductions raise parent … firm productivity significantly. A ten percentage point decrease in tarif rates can lead to total factor productivity gains …

prices with respect to the euro area: productivity growth and increased trade openness. Productivity growth can have a … productivity growth a positive one on price level convergence with respect to the euro area. …

The recent trade and productivity literature shows that trade liberalization can lead to productivity gains through … increased competition and exit of inefficient firms and reallocation of market shares in favor of more efficient firms. In this … paper, an attempt is made to examine the impact of trade liberalization on firm productivity in the Philippines. The country …

Recent evidence suggests that despite opening up a country for trade, the productivity gap between developed and …-adoption effect) but reduces demand at home because of import competition (anti technology-adoption effect). We find that trade … liberalization increases economic performance, that is average productivity and technology adoption, in both countries but that the …

drives low-productivity firms from the small country's home market, replacing them with high-productivity exporters from … abroad. This endogenous policy response creates a selection effect that increases the average productivity of home firms when …