the effects of such efforts on the productivity of firms in relation to trade reforms in the context of the private sector …. This paper contributes to the trade literature by examining how tariffs affect the productivity of manufacturing firms in … Ghana's private sector using firm-level data from 1991 to 2001. In the first step, productivity is estimated via the …

In this paper we show that the relationship between trade liberalization and fi rm productivity is sensitive to the … method used to estimate the production function. We estimate the productivity of Colombian manufacturing plants using the … come to surprisingly different conclusions about firm productivity growth after the liberalization. Results from a growth …

paper finds that significant productivity improvements have taken place in the period since 2000. The paper further explores … the important determinants of productivity improvements across a range of different categories. As per the findings of the … paper, some of the important determinants of productivity measured by total factor productivity (TFP) include imports of raw …

products when competition intensifies in their export destinations and that these dynamics lead to productivity gains at the …

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 …