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 …

In the growth literature that investigates the effect of trade liberalization on productivity, nearly all studies … assume that trade policy is determined independently of productivity, hence it is exogenous. I show, both theoretically and … and the sectors with higher productivity gains are liberalized less even in the presence of a large unilateral …

This paper explores the link between exports and total factor productivity (TFP) in Brazilian manufacturing firms over … assumptions (exogenous and endogenous law of motion for productivity) following Wooldridge's (On estimating firm-level production … productivity, which reinforces the importance of accounting for firm export status to study the evolution of productivity. …

productivity. Further, we analyse both own-direct effects of exporting (importing) and cross-direct ef- fects of exporting … exporting and importing persistence. The estimation results suggest the relevance of both direct and indirect effects (own and …

Trefler (2004, AER) and others that industrial productivity increases more strongly in liberalized industries than in non … productivity increases more strongly in non-liberalized industries than in liberalized industries. …

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 …

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 …

total factor productivity growth (TFPG). Embedding Dobbelaere and Mairesse's (2009) generalization of Hall's (1990) approach … competition measure does not affect the level of productivity change. …

hold a comparative advantage. This paper aims at quantifying the effects of such competitive pressures on the productivity … causal relationship between the increase of developing countries' world market shares and Italian productivity across sectors …