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 …

Numerous studies have investigated the link between trade policy and firm productivity. Despite justifying firm level …

liberalization. As a result the aggregate productivity is affected by a reallocation of resources to more productive firms and a …

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. …

liberalization. As a result, the aggregate productivity is affected by a reallocation of resources to more productive firms and a …

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 …

How does trade liberalization impact productivity at the micro level in the economy? Using a panel data of Indian … manufacturing plants for the period 1998-99 to 2007-08 this study examines the mechanisms through which trade impacts productivity … in driving plant level productivity growth. Productivity gains arising from input channels are found to be greater than …

This paper explores the link between exports and total factor productivity (TFP) for Brazilian manufacturing firms over … the period 2000-2008, both under the assumption of an exogenous or an endogenous law of motion for productivity. The … law of motion for productivity, which reinforces the importance of accounting for firm export status to study the …

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 …