2015
DOI: 10.1080/09638199.2015.1035739
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Does rising import competition harm local firm productivity in less advanced economies? Evidence from the Vietnam's manufacturing sector

Abstract: This paper examines whether rising import penetration has an effect on the productivity of domestic firms. The study uses data on a 10-year unbalanced panel of firms in the manufacturing sector in Vietnam from 2000 to 2009. Panel and instrumental variable methods are used to control firm heterogeneity and endogeneity of import penetration. We find statistically significant and negative effects of import competition on local firms' productivity, but the effect in terms of magnitude is economically small. Furthe… Show more

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“…Their empirical results indicate that competition from China resulted in an increase of roughly 15 per cent in patents, IT intensity and productivity within surviving firms (Qiu and Zhan 2016). However, these findings on firms' behaviour and performance in developed countries may not hold for developing countries, where firms lack the capacity and resources to innovate and compete with similar imported products (Doan et al 2016).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Their empirical results indicate that competition from China resulted in an increase of roughly 15 per cent in patents, IT intensity and productivity within surviving firms (Qiu and Zhan 2016). However, these findings on firms' behaviour and performance in developed countries may not hold for developing countries, where firms lack the capacity and resources to innovate and compete with similar imported products (Doan et al 2016).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, there are almost no studies investigating the impact of Chinese imports on firms' innovation in Viet Nam. Only recently have Doan et al (2016) examined the effects of rising import penetration on the productivity of domestic firms. They find that imports have an adverse impact on firms' productivity, especially in small and medium enterprises.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Measurement was in % growth to be able to capture the initial potential of P2P lending growth that impacted on the growth of bank loans and also to reduce bias between the data based on P2P platforms and the data based on banking in Indonesia. This is because the time-difference model can reduce the bias from the omitted variables (Doan et al, 2015;Nguyen et al, 2017). The control variables used were the macro data relevant in general with the use of loans, such as M2 (money supply) and inflation in Indonesia.…”
Section: Research Methodology and Datamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…All the papers mentioned so far focus on the impact of Chinese competition on developed countries. As microlevel data becomes more available in developing countries, some papers are beginning to study the impact on these as well, such as Moreira et al (2017) for Brazil; Molina (2017) for Colombia; Álvarez and Claro (2009) for Chile; Blyde and Fentanes (2017), Iacovone et al (2013), and Utar and Ruiz (2013) for Mexico; Pierola and Sanchez (2018) for Peru;and Doan et al (2016) for Vietnam. However, no research using firm-level data has ever been done for El Salvador.…”
Section: Figure 1 China's Share In El Salvador's Total Importsmentioning
confidence: 99%