Yahmed, Sarra Ben; Dougherty, Sean M. - 2012
This paper examines how import penetration affects firms' productivity growth taking into account the heterogeneity in … large number of OECD countries, the analysis reveals non-linear effects of both sectoral import penetration and de jure … consistent with a neo-Schumpeterian view of trade and regulation. Close to the technology frontier, import competition has a …