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Trade and Market Selection: Evidence from Manufacturing Plants in Colombia

Eslava, Marcela; Haltiwanger, John; Kugler, Adriana; … - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 16 (2013) 1, pp. 135-158

We examine the link between trade liberalization and aggregate productivity, with a focus on improved market selection resulting from a reduction in trade barriers and in the dispersion of these barriers across producers. Our analysis exploits tariff changes across sectors after the Colombian...

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Trade liberalization and wage inequality in India: a mandated wage equation approach

Mishra, Prachi; Das, Deb Kusum - In: Indian Growth and Development Review 6 (2013) 1, pp. 113-127

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the relationship between trade liberalization and wages in India. Design/methodology/approach – This paper uses an empirical approach based on the “mandated wage equations”. Findings – The main result in the paper is that trade reforms have been...

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Trade liberalization and the balance of payments constraint with intermediate imports: The case of Mexico revisited

Blecker, Robert A.; Ibarra, Carlos A. - In: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 25 (2013) C, pp. 33-47

Previous studies have found that a tightening of the balance of payments (BP) constraint can explain the slowdown in Mexico's growth after its trade liberalization in the late 1980s. This paper develops a disaggregated model of the BP constraint with two types of exports (manufactures and...

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Does trade liberalization effect energy consumption?

Ghani, Gairuzazmi M. - In: Energy Policy 43 (2012) C, pp. 285-290

The effect of trade liberalization on the environment can be directly linked to energy consumption, because energy consumption and production are the underlying cause of most pollutants that harm the environment. The descriptive statistics show that average annual growth of energy consumption...

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Import protection, exports and labor-demand elasticities: Evidence from Korea

Mitra, Devashish; Shin, Jeongeun - In: International Review of Economics & Finance 23 (2012) C, pp. 91-109

We empirically examine the impact of trade on labor demand elasticities using Korean firm-level data. In our analysis, in addition to looking at the impact of liberalizing import restrictions, we take into account the fact that greater trade integration also leads to better and greater export...

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Trade, growth, and poverty in Zambia: Insights from a dynamic GE model

Buffie, Edward F.; Atolia, Manoj - In: Journal of Policy Modeling 34 (2012) 2, pp. 211-229

a full array of imports (intermediates, consumer goods, and capital goods), transport and distribution costs, sector …

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The impact of trade liberalization on productivity: Evidence from India's formal and informal manufacturing sectors

Nataraj, Shanthi - In: Journal of International Economics 85 (2011) 2, pp. 292-301

Despite a large literature investigating the impacts of trade on firm productivity, there is almost no evidence on how small firms react to trade liberalization. Using a unique dataset of firm-level surveys that are representative of the entire Indian manufacturing industry, I show that India's...

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Trade liberalization, unemployment, and inequality with endogenous job destruction

Ranjan, Priya - In: International Review of Economics & Finance 23 (2012) C, pp. 16-29

In a two sector extension of the Mortensen–Pissarides model of endogenous job destruction, it is shown that trade liberalization increases both job creation and job destruction in the import competing sector and reduces them in the export sector. Since trade liberalization increases...

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The effects of trade and services liberalization on wage inequality in India

Mehta, Aashish; Hasan, Rana - In: International Review of Economics & Finance 23 (2012) C, pp. 75-90

We examine the effects of trade and services liberalization on wage inequality in India. We find that labor reallocations and wage shifts attributable to liberalization account for at most 29% of the increase in inequality between 1993 and 2004, and that the effects of services reforms are many...

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Asymmetric effects of trade costs on entry modes: Firm level evidence

Tekin-Koru, Ayça - In: European Economic Review 56 (2012) 2, pp. 277-294

Standard foreign direct investment (FDI) theory suggests that falling trade costs should discourage horizontal FDI … predictions of a recent literature with an industrial organization (IO) angle: Trade costs have asymmetric effects on foreign … expansion modes. This view posits that falling trade costs encourage entry realized as mergers and acquisitions (M&As), one of …

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