Trade integration and within-plant productivity evolution in Chile

Bas, María; Ledezma, Iván

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“…Alvarez and Fuentes (2003) examine the changes in the composition of manufacturing production and the implied productivity changes as a response to the liberalization. Bas and Ledezma (2007) estimate trade barriers in a multilateral context to disentangle the effect of export -and import-oriented policies on plant productivity. Although these papers use different statistical strategies, they all suggest that trade liberalization played a relevant role in explaining TFP.…”

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Market Reforms and Efficiency Gains in Chile

Bergoeing

Hernando

Repetto

2010

Estudios de Economía

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Starting in the mid 1970s, Chile implemented comprehensive structural market reforms. Using manufacturing plant-level data on Chilean firms for years 1980 to 2001, we estimate the role of reforms on efficiency. We analyze aggregate productivity constructed from micro data to find that in the aftermath of the reforms, efficiency gains were explained by within-plant improvements and by the net entry of new units. We also find that plants producing traded goods and plants facing liquidity constraints experienced the largest efficiency gains. Trade openness and a superior access to external finance seem to have partially accounted for the improvement in manufacturing performance.Estudios de Economía, Vol. 37 -Nº 2 218 restringidas en su liquidez. Así, nuestros resultados sugieren que la apertura comercial y el mejor acceso al financiamiento externo explican en parte el mejor desempeño manufacturero en Chile.Palabras clave: Dinámica de plantas, Productividad, Manufacturas, Chile.JEL Classification: L16, L60, O47, O12.

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Market Reforms and Efficiency Gains in Chile

Bergoeing

Hernando

Repetto

2010

Estudios de Economía

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“…11 11 Size classification: large firms have more than 150 workers, medium firms have more than 50 and up to 149 workers and small firms have more than 10 and up to 49. Plants' TFP was estimated as a residual of factor contributions (capital, skilled, and unskilled labor) by Bas and Ledezma (2010) based on the semi‐parametric estimations by Levinsohn and Petrin (2003)). …”

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Technology Adoption, Export Status, and Skill Upgrading: Theory and Evidence

Bas¹

2012

Rev International Economics

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This paper develops a model of trade that features heterogeneous firms, technology choice and different types of skilled labor in a general equilibrium framework to explain within-industry increase in the relative demand for skilled workers. Its main contribution is to investigate the impact of firms' export and technology choice decisions on skill upgrading. Only firms in the upper range of the productivity distribution produce for the foreign market using high-technology. Since this technology is skilled-biased, exporters that resort to modern technologies are more skill intensive. Empirical evidence is also provided to support the model's main predictions using plant-level panel data from Chile's manufacturing sector (1990)(1991)(1992)(1993)(1994)(1995)(1996)(1997)(1998)(1999)). 1 1 1 , where qi is the demand for a 320 Maria Bas

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“…In the same direction, Griffith et al (2004) conclude that around 50 per cent of the total contribution of R&D to productivity growth is accounted by technology diffusion in OECD countries. In addition, Bas and Ledezma (2010) and Bustos (2011) find the trade liberalisation has induced Argentinean and Chilean exporters to upgrade their technology. Greenaway and Kneller (2007) reinforce this result by presenting further evidence from studies in other countries.…”

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Innovation and Trade Policy Coordination: The Role of Firm Heterogeneity

Navas

Sala

2015

World Economy

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Recent studies have concluded that R&D grants can induce firms to export and that exporting and innovating can be complementary activities at the firm level. Yet the trade literature has paid little attention to the scope of innovation policy as a stimulus to both trade and innovation. To investigate this question we rely on a general work-horse model of trade and firm heterogeneity with firm investments in R&D activities. The multiplicity of equilibria together with the interplay of innovation and trade policies uncover novel results. In particular, we show that the effects of either policy depend on the degree of protectionism in a country. Therefore, countries can respond differently to the same policy, and similarly to different policies. In such a context, different governments may face different degrees of freedom regarding how to achieve a given target. This finding leads us to discuss the issue of policy coordination.JEL: F12, F13, F15, F61, O32. Keywords: innovation, innovation policy, heterogenous firms, technology adoption, trade policy. * This article is an enhanced and modified version of EUI Working Paper ECO 2007/58 titled "Technology Adoption and the Selection Effect of Trade". We are grateful to numerous seminar participants for their discussions and to some anonymous referees for their comments. All remaining mistakes are ours.

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Trade integration and within-plant productivity evolution in Chile

Cited by 20 publications

References 39 publications

Market Reforms and Efficiency Gains in Chile

Market Reforms and Efficiency Gains in Chile

Technology Adoption, Export Status, and Skill Upgrading: Theory and Evidence

Innovation and Trade Policy Coordination: The Role of Firm Heterogeneity

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