Brazil's trade liberalization between 1990 and 1993, and its partial reversal in 1995, are used to study how reduced … inward trade barriers affect productivity. The production function of Brazilian manufacturers is estimated at the ISIC3 two …-digit level under various alternatives, including an extension of Olley and Pakes' (1996) procedure. Firm-level productivity is …

Brazil's trade liberalization between 1990 and 1993, and its partial reversal in 1995, are used to study how reduced … inward trade barriers affect productivity. The production function of Brazilian manufacturers is estimated at the ISIC3 two …-digit level under various alternatives, including an extension of Olley and Pakes' (1996) procedure. Firm-level productivity is …

This paper analyses the effects of the 1990 Brazilian trade liberalization on the total factor productivity, market … 1986/94 indicates very large total factor productivity gains in the period to 1994, which were accompanied by large falls …

German and Austrian firm productivity. Unique matching of data from 1994 to 2003 suggests that tarif reductions raise parent … firm productivity significantly. A ten percentage point decrease in tarif rates can lead to total factor productivity gains …