Industrial Policy and Trade Promotion in Uruguay: Which are the Effects?

Adriana Peluffo and Alvaro Brunini ()
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Alvaro Brunini: Uruguay XXI

No 24-02, Documentos de Trabajo (working papers) from Instituto de Economía - IECON

Abstract: Exporting plays a central role in economic growth, especially in small economies. In this work we analyze an industrial policy aimed at fostering exports: the Temporary Admission Regime (TA). To this aim we use a panel of Uruguayan firms for the period 2005-2016. We use two evaluation techniques: binary treatment effects on matched firms and continuous treatment effects. These techniques allow controlling for selectivity into the treatment and selection bias. We find positive effects of Temporary Admission on trade performance, and particularly on export performance, while there are no clear effects on the firm’s total factor productivity and employment.

Keywords: industrial policy; temporary admission; export performance; productivity; causal effect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F13 F14 F16 O24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2024-03
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eff, nep-int, nep-lam and nep-sbm
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