Trade, Tariffs and Total Factor Productivity: The Case of Spanish Firms

Dovis, Marion; Baleix, Juliette Milgram

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9701.2009.01169.x

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“…The results of the research revealed that trade reforms, licensing policy, reduction or elimination of trade barriers in the researched South African countries significantly increased their trade openness and productivity in the short run. Dovis & Milgram-Baleix (2009), who analysed the impact of competitiveness on productivity of Spanish manufacturing firms in the context of trade liberalisation, established a negative link between productivity and international trade tariffs. What is more, it was found that higher degree of competitiveness has a positive impact on productivity in case trade tariffs are eliminated.…”

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Trade openness, economic growth and competitiveness. The case of the Central and Eastern European Countries

Pilinkienė¹

2016

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This article examines the effects of trade openness on the economic growth and competitiveness of Central and Eastern European countries (CEEs). Although CEEs are characterised by high indicators of trade openness, they show rather different trends of economic development and competitiveness. In most CEEs, trade policies are oriented towards regional trade cooperation with an explicit aim of integration in global economics. The empirical research was conducted on the basis of the panel data for 11 CEEs over the period 2000 to 2014 by applying correlation analysis. Granger-causality test and vector autoregression (VAR) model. This methodological framework allows to test the direct causality relations among trade openness, economic growth and competitiveness, and enables to distinguish between short-run and long-term effect. The research results have confirmed the empirical interdependence among the triad components-trade openness, economic growth and competitiveness, i.e. it has been established that economic growth leads to the improvement of trade openness, while competitiveness of the CEE region leads to the improvement of economic growth, which has obviously disclosed the validity of the theoretical insights. Granger-causality test as well as the developed VAR model have revealed that economic growth has a long-lasting effect on trade openness, while the indicators of competitiveness have a longlasting effect on GDP per capita in CEEs.

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Trade openness, economic growth and competitiveness. The case of the Central and Eastern European Countries

Pilinkienė¹

2016

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“…For a start, we follow [11][12][13] and use the "direct approach" to estimating production functions to estimate (1). To account for the simultaneity of input choices and unobserved productivity, we use the System-GMM estimator of Blundell and Bond (1998).…”

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“…The results of these regressions are reported in Tables 1 and 2. To assess the robustness of the findings, we apply a methodology that is similar to the one used by [1,[4][5][6]13] to study the correlation between total factor productivity 3 For example, if more productive firms are more likely to hire more workers and invest in more capital due to higher current and anticipated future profitability, estimation methods such as OLS will not be consistent and thereby result in biased coefficient estimates; the estimated input coefficients would be higher than their true values. 4 For example, in the specific case of the data set under examination, about 32 percent of observations has zero investment while a further 44 percent has "missing" investment and therefore much information would be lost in dropping these observations, as required by the Olley-Pakes technique.…”

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Tariffs and Total Factor Productivity: The Case of Ghanaian Manufacturing Firms

Ackah¹,

Aryeetey²,

Morrissey³

2012

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This paper investigates the effects of trade liberalization on firm productivity in Ghana. We examine Ghanaian trade policy from 1993 to 2002, a period during which trade liberalization deepened with intermittent protection in a number of ways across industries, to investigate the effects of trade policy reforms and firm productivity. We find a strong negative impact of nominal tariffs on firm productivity, controlling for observed and unobserved firm characteristics and industry heterogeneity, a result that is robust to various alterations of the base model, including treating tariffs as endogenous and employing different estimation techniques. These results indicate that firms that are overprotected have a lower level of Total Factor Productivity than firms that are exposed to import competition. The estimated coefficients on both tariffs and its squared term confirm that higher tariffs are particularly distortionary

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“…Findings on learning-by-importing is also inconclusive. Kasahara and Rodrigue (2008) for Chile, Smeets and Warzynski (2013) for Denmark, Halpern et al (2015) for Hungary, Forlani (2010) for Ireland, Dovis and Milgram-Baleix (2009) and Augier et al (2013) for Spain, and Lööf and Andersson (2010) for Sweden find evidence of productivity gain from importing. On the contrary, Muendler (2004) for Brazil, Vogel and Wagner (2010) for Germany, Van Biesebroeck (2008) for Colombia and Zimbabwe find weak evidence.…”

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Importing and Firm Productivity in Ethiopian Manufacturing

Abreha

2019

The World Bank Economic Review

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This paper investigates the causal relationship between importing and firm productivity. Using a rich dataset from Ethiopian manufacturing over the period 1996–2011, I find that most firms rely on production inputs from the world market. These firms are better performing as shown by significant, economically large import premia. I also find strong evidence of self-selection of more productive firms into importing which is indicative of sizable import market entry costs. To examine the causal effect of importing on firm productivity, I use a model in which the static and dynamic effects of importing are separately estimated. The estimation results provide support to learning-by-importing. However, the productivity gains are small in size compared to similar findings in other studies. I provide some evidence in support of firms’ limited absorptive capacity in explaining the small productivity gains.

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Trade, Tariffs and Total Factor Productivity: The Case of Spanish Firms

Cited by 23 publications

References 63 publications

Trade openness, economic growth and competitiveness. The case of the Central and Eastern European Countries

Trade openness, economic growth and competitiveness. The case of the Central and Eastern European Countries

Tariffs and Total Factor Productivity: The Case of Ghanaian Manufacturing Firms

Importing and Firm Productivity in Ethiopian Manufacturing

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