Trade policy, trade volumes, and plant-level productivity in Colombian manufacturing industries

Ana Fernandes ()

No 3064, Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank

Abstract: Fernandes explores Colombian trade policy from 1977-91, a period of substantial variation in protection across industries, to examine whether increased exposure to foreign competition generates plant-level productivity gains. Using a large panel of manufacturing plants, she finds a strong positive impact of tariff liberalization on consistent productivity estimates, controlling for plant and industry heterogeneity. This result is not driven by the endogeneity of protection nor by plant exit. The impact of tariff liberalization on productivity is stronger for large plants and for plants in less competitive industries. Qualitatively similar results are obtained when using effective rates of protection and import penetration ratios as measures of protection

Keywords: Economic Theory&Research; Environmental Economics&Policies; Labor Policies; Industrial Management; Municipal Financial Management; Environmental Economics&Policies; Economic Theory&Research; TF054105-DONOR FUNDED OPERATION ADMINISTRATION FEE INCOME AND EXPENSE ACCOUNT; Industrial Management; Trade Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003-05-31
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Journal Article: Trade policy, trade volumes and plant-level productivity in Colombian manufacturing industries (2007)
Working Paper: Trade Policy, Trade Volumes and Plant-Level Productivity in Colombian Manufacturing Industries (2002)
Working Paper: Trade Policy, Trade Volumes and Plant-Level Productivity in Colombian Manufacturing Industries (2002)
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