productivity levels but also on long-term productivity growth rates in developing countries. Using a panel of Mexican manufacturing … industries, this paper examines several alternative mechanisms through which trade contributes positively to productivity levels … 1986. The results indicate that productivity growth is significantly correlated with the share of imported intermediate …

The impact of trade liberalization on productivity growth is still an empirical issue; the theoretical literature is as … empirically test whether trade liberalization in Indian manufacturing has raised total factor productivity (TFP) growth. The …

The productivity growth has an important linkage with economic growth and standard of living. It not only increases … therefore public policies aim at improving productivity. This paper focusses on estimating productivity in iron-steel and cement … industries in India and examines the impact of trade liberalization on productivity. The period of the study is from 1991-92 to …

into export markets, we use a model with heterogeneous firms, trade in differentiated goods, and variable external … economies of scale to sort out the rich interactions between TBT reform, input diversity, firm-level productivity, and aggregate … productivity. We calibrate the model for 14 industries in order to clarify the theoretical ambiguities. Overall, our results tend …