This article proposes a model to examine the impact of trade liberalization on productivity growth in developing … Schumpeterian framework and Total Factor Productivity (TFP) analysis, the study illustrates that free trade can directly influence … dominant trading partner, a developed country. Moreover, trade liberalization has a negative impact on Vietnam's productivity …

investigate the relation between firms' trading activities (importing, exporting or both) and productivity. We find important self … correlated within firms, failing to control for the importing activity leads to overstated average productivity premia of … exporters. -- Trade openness ; Firms' Heterogeneity ; Productivity …