using a political economy of trade policy model to guide my estimations for Colombia between 1983 and 1998. I introduce a … may be seen as a slowing down effect of PTAs for Colombia. The estimations account for endogeneity and omitted variable …

improve the business conditions in one country have negative productivity and welfare effects on the trading partner. Second …

improve the business conditions in one country have negative productivity and welfare effects on the trading partner. Second …

improve the business conditions in one country have negative productivity and welfare effects on the trading partner. Second …

foreign competition generate gains in plant productivity? We find that it does. We examine Colombian trade policy from 1977 to … industries, to investigate the link between trade policy and plant productivity. Using a rich panel of manufacturing plants, we … input demands and productivity. These estimates are used to derive plant-level time-varying productivity measures for which …

This paper explores a period of substantial variation in trade policy across industries in Colombia (1977-1991) to … examine whether increased exposure to foreign competition generates productivity gains for manufacturing plants. Using an … liberalization on plant productivity, even after controlling for plant and industry heterogeneity, real exchange rates, and cyclical …

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 …