Trade Liberalization: Export-market Participation, Productivity Growth, and Innovation

2004 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 372-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. Baldwin
Keyword(s):  
Trade Liberalization ◽  
Productivity Growth ◽  
Export Market ◽  
Market Participation

Trade Liberalization and Productivity Performance: Evidence from the Australian Passenger Motor Vehicle Industry

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (03n04) ◽  
pp. 467-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lionel Bopage ◽  
Kishor Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Trade Liberalization ◽  
Productivity Growth ◽  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
Motor Vehicle ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Tariff Protection ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
Motor Vehicle Industry ◽  
Production Subsidies

This paper contributes to the ongoing debate about the effects of trade liberalization on productivity performance of the Australian passenger motor vehicle industry, which has experienced significant liberalization over the years. Our analysis indicates that trade liberalization had a negative impact on productivity growth, at least in the immediate post-liberalization period. Empirical results suggest that economies of scale and tariff protection improve productivity, while industry assistance (such as the local content and duty drawback schemes and production subsidies) retards productivity. Policy implications of these findings are that there are dividends in terms of improved productivity by encouraging economies of scale, providing tariff protection and lowering industry assistance.

Trade Liberalization, Structural Change, and Economic Growth

2021 ◽  
pp. 407-441
Author(s):  
Michael Landesmann ◽  
Neil Foster-McGregor
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Structural Change ◽  
Trade Liberalization ◽  
Productivity Growth ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Adam Smith ◽  
Trade Theory ◽  
New Trade Theory ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Trade and the integration of countries into the global economy is one of the main forces shaping the structural composition of economies, an effect which in turn is expected to impact upon productivity and growth. Structural change can be restrained or reinforced by international trade. This chapter reviews the theory on the relationship between trade and trade liberalization and both structural change and growth, from the contributions of Adam Smith to the more recent new new trade theory beginning with the work of Melitz. The chapter further discusses the existing empirical evidence on the relationship between trade and structural change, before concluding by presenting evidence on the impact of trade liberalization on productivity growth for a broad sample of countries, further decomposing the effect into an effect due to structural change and an effect due to within sector productivity developments.

Trade Liberalization and Productivity Growth: Firm-Level Evidence from Cameroon

2011 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ousmanou Njikam ◽  
John Cockburn
Keyword(s):  
Trade Liberalization ◽  
Productivity Growth ◽  
Firm Level

Growth and Inequality in Closed and Open Economies: The Role of the Product Cycle

2008 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Priya Ranjan
Keyword(s):  
Trade Liberalization ◽  
Wage Inequality ◽  
Productivity Growth ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Research Effort ◽  
Product Cycle ◽  
Skill Intensity ◽  
Increase Productivity ◽  
New Goods

Abstract The product cycle literature suggests that new goods have a higher skill intensity in the early phase of production, which declines once the production process becomes standardized. Using this insight it is shown how an increase in the rate of neutral technological progress, which frees up resources tied in the production of existing goods, leads to increased production of skill intensive new goods and consequently an increase in wage inequality. When technological progress is exogenous, a decrease in skill endowment or trade liberalization with a skill scarce country increases wage inequality but leaves the composition of production between new and standardized goods unaltered. When the rate of technological progress depends on research effort, trade between a skill-abundant Northern economy and a skill-scarce Southern economy can raise wage inequality in both countries and increase productivity growth in the latter. North-North trade increases both wage inequality and productivity growth.

Trade Liberalization and Productivity Growth in Latin American Manufacturing, 1970-98

2003 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Paus ◽  
Nola Reinhardt ◽  
Michael Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Trade Liberalization ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Productivity Growth

scholarly journals Firm dynamics in the Cambodian garment industry: firm turnover, productivity growth and wage profile under trade liberalization

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoko Asuyama ◽  
Dalin Chhun ◽  
Takahiro Fukunishi ◽  
Seiha Neou ◽  
Tatsufumi Yamagata
Keyword(s):  
Trade Liberalization ◽  
Productivity Growth ◽  
Firm Dynamics ◽  
Garment Industry ◽  
Firm Turnover
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