This paper examines the impact of trade liberalization under NAFTA on the productivity of the Mexican automobile …) to obtain a productivity measure. In a second stage, a model is estimated by System GMM to analyze the effect of trade … openness on the estimated productivity. The main results indicate that there exists a positive association between trade …

larger productivity gains from trade liberalization than previously thought …

larger productivity gains from trade liberalization than previously thought. -- Technology diffusion ; R&D ; openness ; North-South …

into export markets, we use a model with heterogeneous firms, trade in differentiated goods, and variable external … 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 …

driven by exports, imports, and trade openness. The findings suggest that trade liberalisation and export-led growth are …