The study presented in this paper describes preliminary findings on changes in the adoption of different learning … mechanisms before and after the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), based on a study of 193 … firms with regards to learning, and focuses on changes in learning trends owing to different market conditions brought about …

This paper examines the impact of NAFTA on trade-related foreign R&D and total factor productivity (TFP) in Mexico. The …-output relations in Mexico. We find that i) trade with Mexico's NAFTA partners has a large and significant impact on Mexico's TFP while … trade with the rest of the OECD does not; and ii) NAFTA has led to a permanent increase in TFP in Mexico's manufacturing …