The desire to increase manufacturing productivity has been a commonly cited goal of the trade liberalization episodes … in productivity. However, this paper finds that the methodology used in the literature ignores inter …-industry productivity spillovers and suggests that this omission biases estimates of the impact of import tariff reduction on industry …

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 …

heterogeneous firms and costly trade. Growth originates from horizontal specialization and the steady state productivity growth rate …

theory of division of labor is embedded. In the absence of labor market integration with trading countries, we show that … increasing firm productivity and improving welfare. Our model suggests a new interpretation of the trade-induced firm … productivity effect. …

Danish productivity has grown only weakly over the past two decades, both historically and in relation to other … to continue its efforts to reap the benefits of globalisation, which would contribute to invigorating productivity growth …

This paper examines the relationship between the exposure to foreign trade and productivity growth for a sample of … Indian manufacturing firms. By testing a catching up model of productivity growth, it sheds some light on the nature of the … relationship between the exposure to foreign competition and productivity growth. It finds a non linear relationship between firms …

This paper presents an analysis of the relationship between innovation, productivity and exports regarding the SMEs … exporting (innovative) firms versus non-exporting (not innovative) ones in terms of productivity. In addition, we demonstrate … exportation. Finally we show the firms’ conscious self-selection in export markets in endogenizing productivity through innovation. …