This paper reassesses the impact of trade liberalization on productivity. We build a new, unique database of effective … linkages. Our findings point to a dominant role of the indirect input market channel in fostering productivity gains. A 1 … percentage point decline in input tariffs is estimated to increase total factor productivity by about 2 percent in the sector …

In the growth literature that investigates the effect of trade liberalization on productivity, nearly all studies … assume that trade policy is determined independently of productivity, hence it is exogenous. I show, both theoretically and … and the sectors with higher productivity gains are liberalized less even in the presence of a large unilateral …

improvements were recorded in the overall productivity growth and spatial distribution of manufacturing which appear to be due …

How does trade liberalization impact productivity at the micro level in the economy? Using a panel data of Indian … manufacturing plants for the period 1998-99 to 2007-08 this study examines the mechanisms through which trade impacts productivity … in driving plant level productivity growth. Productivity gains arising from input channels are found to be greater than …

source of exogenous variation to identify the impact of services liberalization on total factor productivity (TFP) of …

a small CGE model. This paper is partially based on the work by the Authors for the World Bank Global Development …

markets. This approach explains a variety of features exhibited in disaggregated trade data, including the higher productivity … industry and firm productivity. …

on productivity of the Russian industry that uses these services as intermediate consumption. Empirical analysis of the …