This study examines the impact of imported intermediates on plant productivity and the role of plant capability in … or non-FDI plants. The result underlines the importance of plant capability in determining productivity gain from … establishments from 2000 to 2015. Imported intermediates are presented as a proportion of total intermediates, while capability …

This study analyses empirically the effects of import competition on firm productivity (TFPQ) using administrative firm … positive incentives for firms to invest in productivity improvement, whereas import competition from middle- and low …. Costly investment in productivity appears feasible reaction to such type of competition and we find no evidence for …

This study analyzes empirically the effects of import competition on firm productivity (TFPQ) using administrative firm … positive incentives for firms to invest in productivity improvement, whereas import competition from middle- and low …. Costly investment in productivity appears feasible reaction to such type of competition and we find no evidence for …

This study analyses empirically the effects of import competition on firm productivity (TFPQ) using administrative firm … positive incentives for firms to invest in productivity improvement, whereas import competition from middle- and low …. Costly investment in productivity appears feasible reaction to such type of competition and we find no evidence for …

This study analyzes empirically the effects of import competition on firm productivity (TFPQ) using administrative firm … positive incentives for firms to invest in productivity improvement, whereas import competition from middle- and low …. Costly investment in productivity appears feasible reaction to such type of competition and we find no evidence for …

This paper looks at the question of how import activities and productivity are related. Using detailed production and … evidence of both self-selection into importing and learning-by-importing, but not all imports seem to matter for productivity … start importing machinery and equipment also experience an increase in productivity, while the same does not occur when …

How trade shocks emanating from a low-wage country affect the productivity of manufacturing plants in other low … from 1998 to 2009. Increased import competition from China leads to an improvement in revenue productivity, and a reduction … revenue productivity of large plants and a 1 percent decrease in the number of products within-plant. However, the impact on …

We examine the impact of imported intermediates on plant productivity and the role of plant capability in explaining …-FDI plants. The result underlines the importance of plant capability in determining productivity gain from imported intermediates … establishments from 2000 to 2015. Imported intermediates are presented as a proportion of total intermediates, while capability …

Mexico and the US, on the productivity of Mexican plants between 1994 and 2007. We use detailed panel data on Mexican … manufacturers matched with trade data at the product level. Using quantity-based estimates of plant-level productivity, we identify … foreign competition causing initially low-productivity plants to fall farther behind their peers. We focus on within …

International trade has been stated as one of the most important mean of improving firms' productivity, being the … contribute to local firm's productivity performance by incorporating better inputs in their production processes. This paper … of manufacturing formal firms in Ecuador, and, the causal relationship between the import decision and firm productivity …