by affecting both firm-level incentives and market structure.Keywords : Morocco, Trade, Non-Tariff Measures, Firms …This paper combines a new database on non-tariff measures (NTMs) with Morocco's firm census to explore the effect of … regulatory harmonization, we find that harmonization waves correlate with rises in labor productivity and with higher markups …

effects on productivity changes. A differences-in-differences matching estimator is used to address the endogeneity bias of … similar. More specifically, no evidence is found of pre or post-entry differences in labour productivity for Moroccan firms. …

This paper explores the relationship between openness to trade, immigration, and income per person across countries. To … predictors of openness to immigration and to trade for each country by using information on bilateral geographical and cultural … to immigration on long-run income per capita. In contrast, we are unable to establish an effect of trade openness on …

In new new international trade theory, whether firms export or not are determined by their productivity. These models … assume that firms enter a market to find their productivity levels revealed to them as in a lottery. In this paper we propose … with a real option value. We show that endogenizing the export decision is consistent with patterns of productivity and …

Our paper decomposes knowledge-diffusing trade flows and estimates their impacts separately. Overall, trade generates … positive knowledge spillovers, but the effects of intra-industry trade are ambiguous. With regard to sectoral import … significant positive spillover effects of intra-industry trade that corresponds to international out-sourcing. …

growth has largely kept pace with private sector real output growth, that productivity growth has been much higher, and that … result of productivity growth (assumed to reflect automation) and are part of a long-term trend. Since the 1980s, however …, the apparently robust growth in manufacturing real output and productivity have been driven by a relatively small industry …

and institutional adaptations, as well as ongoing gains in labour productivity remain important for maintaining export …

output, construction, foreign trade and quarterly GDP figures confirm this development. The economic recovery in the 'old EU …, only Estonia and Lithuania currently meet all the Maastricht convergence criteria. A brief study of foreign trade data … reveals that in the Baltic States, foreign trade deficits are very high for goods even more so than for services. The NMS in …