Services liberalization and productivity of manufacturing firms

Shepotylo, Oleksandr; Vakhitov, Volodymyr

doi:10.1111/ecot.12061

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“…Most recently, Shepotylo and Vakhitov (2015) employed a large database of Ukrainian firms in [2001][2002][2003][2004][2005][2006][2007] to identify the effect of services liberalization on total factor productivity (TFP) of manufacturing firms. The results indicated that an increase in services liberalization was associated with an increase in TFP.…”

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Agglomeration externalities, competition and productivity: empirical evidence from firms located in Ukraine

2017

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This paper studies role of agglomeration externalities and market structure in determination of total factor productivity (TFP) of Ukrainian firms, having controlled for individual firm characteristics. We use micro-level data for manufacturing and service sectors in years 2005 and 2013. Our empirical results confirm the importance of various agglomeration externalities as well as competition in determination of TFP of Ukrainian firms. In addition, we find the statistically significant link between the total factor productivity, intangible assets, capital intensity, firm size, ownership status and firm internationalization (exports and imports). JEL Classification

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Agglomeration externalities, competition and productivity: empirical evidence from firms located in Ukraine

2017

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“…More recently, Earle et al (2014) demonstrated that political favouritism combined with weak institutions had a substantial redistributional impact on productivity. Most recently, Kim et al (2015) demonstrated that overall improvements in firm productivity within Ukraine's manufacturing sector were found to vary substantially by industry, trade status and firm turnover; while Shepotylo and Vakhitov (2015) identified the effect of service liberalization on the TFP of manufacturing firms. However, so far no attempts have been made to study, empirically, the relationship between productivity and firm characteristics of Ukrainian enterprises in particular regions.…”

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The Regional Heterogeneity of Productivity Determinants: Evidence from Ukrainian Firms

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Michałek

Nasadiuk

2017

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44After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukraine emerged as an independent country and followed its own system of economic and political transition. Since the beginning of the 1990s Ukraine has been struggling to transform its economy from a central planning system into an open market economy. The change in political leadership and the declarations for deeper economic reforms as well as the recent signing of a free trade agreement with the EU, creates new opportunities and prospects for economic recovery and the improved performance of Ukrainian enterprises. However, up until now there has been relatively little empirical evidence on the performance of Ukrainian enterprises, especially in the regional context. Therefore, we aim to fill at least a part of the existing gap in the literature by contributing to a better understanding of total factor productivity (TFP) determinants in an economy that is completing the transition from a centrally planned system to an open market one.The main goal of this paper is to empirically study the nexus between TFP, capital intensity, firm size, the level of competition in the industry, ownership status, and firm internationalization (exports and imports) of Ukrainian firms located in various macroregions, having controlled for industry-specific effects. Our study is based on Ukrainian firm-level data for the year 2013. This has allowed us to evaluate whether the determinants of productivity in manufacturing sectors are different across various regions of Ukraine.This paper relates to the rapidly growing and recent strand in empirical literature that focuses on firm-level TFP determinants. The majority of this literature is devoted to the analysis of firmlevel determinants of TFP at the country level.1 There have been 1 Given the fact that the quantity of this literature is enormous, summarizing it goes beyond the scope of this paper. An extensive review of the literature on TFP determinants has been offered by Syverson (2011). Instead, this paper discusses only studies that focus on Ukraine.several studies on the performance of enterprises in Ukraine, for example, Pivovarsky ( (2015) demonstrated that overall improvements in firm productivity within Ukraine's manufacturing sector were found to vary substantially by industry, trade status and firm turnover; while Shepotylo and Vakhitov (2015) identified the effect of service liberalization on the TFP of manufacturing firms. However, so far no attempts have been made to study, empirically, the relationship between productivity and firm characteristics of Ukrainian enterprises in particular regions.In contrast to other studies, which are often based on simple labour productivity measures, this paper uses TFP as a measure of overall productivity, calculated using the LevinsohnPetrin (2003) method. In particular we have studied the role of firm characteristics such as internationalization (measured by foreign capital participation), exports and imported inputs, firm size, private ownership, and the level of market conce...

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“…3 Finally, Freund and Bolarky (2008) find 2 See Francois and Hoekman (2010) for a survey of the theory and more than a dozen empirical studies that support this finding. Additionally, in recent years, several studies that use firm-level data support this finding including Arnold, Javorcik, and Mattoo (2011) for the Czech Republic, Fernandes and Paunov (2012) for Chile, Arnold, Javorcik, Lipscomb, and Mattoo (2016) for India and Shepotylo and Vakhitov (2015) for Ukraine. that trade promotes growth in countries with good institutions, but trade did not increase growth among countries with bad institutions (countries with bad institutions are those that are in the worst quartile of their excessive regulations index).…”

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Privatisation and the unusual case of Belarusian accession to the WTO

2017

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The accession negotiations of Belarus to the WTO are unusual since, due to its obligations in the Eurasian Economic Union, WTO accession is not expected to impact its tariffs or formerly substantial trade‐distorting agricultural subsidies. Nonetheless, we estimate that WTO accession will increase welfare by 9.9% of consumption in Belarus. We show that inclusion of: (i) foreign direct investment; (ii) reduction in non‐discriminatory barriers against services providers; and (iii) our model with imperfect competition and endogenous productivity effects together produce estimated gains eleven times larger than a model of perfect competition with only cross‐border trade in services. Our analysis is enabled by our production of a data set on both discriminatory and non‐discriminatory barriers in services and their ad valorem equivalents. Based on a new data set on labour productivity by sector and type of ownership, in our central model, we estimate that privatisation will increase welfare by 35.8% of consumption. We find substantial variance in the estimated gains from privatisation depending on model assumptions, but all the estimates of the impacts of privatisation indicate substantial welfare gains.

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Services liberalization and productivity of manufacturing firms

Cited by 39 publications

References 30 publications

Agglomeration externalities, competition and productivity: empirical evidence from firms located in Ukraine

Agglomeration externalities, competition and productivity: empirical evidence from firms located in Ukraine

The Regional Heterogeneity of Productivity Determinants: Evidence from Ukrainian Firms

Privatisation and the unusual case of Belarusian accession to the WTO

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