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Trade Liberalization and Firm Productivity : Estimation Methods Matter
Kealey, John - 2018
In this paper we show that the relationship between trade liberalization and fi rm productivity is sensitive to the … method used to estimate the production function. We estimate the productivity of Colombian manufacturing plants using the … come to surprisingly different conclusions about firm productivity growth after the liberalization. Results from a growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012935684
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FDI, technical efficiency and spillovers : evidence from Indian automobile industry
Sur, Abhisek; Nandy, Amarendu - In: Cogent economics & finance 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-18
Exchange rate volatility has been identified as one of the drivers of export diversification. Previous studies have assumed a symmetric relationship between the two variables. However, because volatility could be positive or negative and economic agents react to these changes differently, recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011905226
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Exports and productivity : an empirical analysis of German and Austrian firm-level performance
Hansen, Thorsten - 2010
This paper studies the relationship between export activities and firm-level productivity. Unique matching of German … a rise in firm-level productivity. That is, the annual average growth rate of an exporting firm's productivity is … foreign markets boosts firm-level productivity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003952127
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Exports and productivity : an empirical analysis of German and Austrian firm-level performance
Hansen, Thorsten - 2010
This paper studies the relationship between export activities and firm-level productivity. Unique matching of German … a rise in firm-level productivity. That is, the annual average growth rate of an exporting firm's productivity is … foreign markets boosts firm-level productivity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003953959
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Explaining the size differences of exporter productivity premia : theory and evidence
Geishecker, Ingo; Schröder, Philipp J. H.; Sørensen, Allan - 2014
Why is it that exporter productivity premia (EPP) differ so widely in size? We take this question to the theory and to … EPPs across sectors, and hence across countries, can be explained by the variation in productivity dispersion, trade costs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010246063
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Explaining the Size Differences of Exporter Productivity Premia : Theory and Evidence
Geishecker, Ingo - 2014
Why is it that exporter productivity premia (EPP) differ so widely in size? We take this question to the theory and to … EPPs across sectors, and hence across countries, can be explained by the variation in productivity dispersion, trade costs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057657
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Do External Knowledge Spillovers Induce Firms' Innovations? Evidence from Slovenia
Damijan, Jože P.; Jaklic, Andreja; Rojec, Matija - 2012
firms' innovations on firms' productivity growth. Using the firm level data on innovation activity combined with firms … as a result of firm's R&D do contribute substantially to firm's total factor productivity growth. And third, foreign …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014059712
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The Post 1990 Brazilian Trade Liberalization and the Performance of Large Manufacturing Firms
Hay, Donald - 2002
The paper analyses the effects of the 1990 Brazilian trade liberalizaton on the total factor productivity, market share …/94 indicates very large total factor productivity gains in the period to 1994, which were accompanied by large falls in market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014111915
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Tariff liberalization and trade integration of emerging countries
Disdier, Anne-Célia; Fontagné, Lionel Gérard; … - 2013 - This version: October 2013
We investigate how tariff liberalization has affected exporting in emerging countries. We use a highly disaggregated bilateral measure of market access to compare tariffs applied in 1996 and 2006, which includes the timing of the Uruguay Round and episodes of bilateral liberalization. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010192075
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Trade Liberalization, Intermediate Inputs, and Productivity : Evidence from Indonesia
Amiti, Mary - 2006
This paper estimates the effects of trade liberalization on plant productivity. In contrast to previous studies, we … distinguish between productivity gains arising from lower tariffs on final goods relative to lower tariffs on intermediate inputs …. Lower output tariffs can produce productivity gains by inducing tougher import competition whereas cheaper imported inputs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780765