Trade and Productivity: A Route to Reallocation with a High Transport Toll

Carmen Pagés
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Carmen Pagés: Inter-American Development Bank

Chapter 5 in The Age of Productivity, 2010, pp 97-121 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Plenty of ink has been devoted to the topic of trade and productivity, particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean. Even though the results are mixed when country and sector data are used, most of the more robust evidence at the firm level seems to confirm what professional economists have known for centuries: trade boosts productivity (see IDB 2002; Fernandes 2007; López-Córdova and Mesquita Moreira 2004; Muendler 2002; and Pavcnik 2002).

Keywords: Transport Cost; Trade Cost; Exit Rate; Tariff Rate; Freight Rate (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230107618_5

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