Trade integration and within-plant productivity evolution in Chile
Article dans une revue: We analyze the impact of trade integration on plant TFP using Chilean plant-level data (1982–1999) and 3-digit bilateral trade flows. Our contribution is to disentangle the impact of export and import barriers, estimated as border effects within a multilateral context. A fall in export barriers is positively correlated with plant productivity in traded sectors. The reduction of import barriers, however, can only be associated to productivity improvements in export-oriented sectors. In import-competing sectors a robust positive correlation shows up between plant productivity and protection. We then test several channels linking trade integration and firm productivity.
Auteur(s)
Maria Bas, Ivan Ledezma
Revue
- Review of World Economics
Date de publication
- 2010
Mots-clés
- O1
- F4
- Plant-level data
- F1
- Trade barriers
- Plant productivity
- Firm heterogeneity
Pages
- 113-146
URL de la notice HAL
Version
- 1
Volume
- 146