plant's placement within the productivity distribution. Appreciations of the local currency expose domestic plants to more … plants are forced from the market, which truncates the lower end of the productivity distribution. For surviving plants …, appreciations can lead to a reduction in plant size, which, in the presence of scale economies, can lower productivity. We examine …

changes in tariffs and real exchange rates, whether differences in their efficiency levels are controlled or not …

In this paper, we explore the linkages between export-market participation and productivity performance in Canadian … manufacturing plants. We also examine differences in the effect of exporting on productivity between foreign-controlled and domestic …-controlled plants, and between young and older plants. We find that export participation improves productivity. The effect is much …

Recent evidence suggests that tariff reductions from the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA) generated substantial … productivity gains in Canadian manufacturing. Using a comprehensive panel data set of 81 manufacturing industries over the 1983 …-1996 period, we shed new light on two potential sources of these productivity gains: increased firm size and increased firm …