Trade Policy, Trade Volumes and Plant-Level Productivity in Colombian Manufacturing Industries

By A. Fernandes. 2003

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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

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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Globalization and firm level adjustment with imperfect labor markets (2008, background): “On the other hand, there is evidence of within-firm productivity gains in import-competing markets (Pavcnik, 2002; Fernandes, 2007; Topalova, 2007).”
WTO Accession and Performance of Chinese Manufacturing Firms (2017, background): “The lack of output prices can be overcome with an explicit demand function, as in De Loecker (2011), or with additional data, as in Lu and Yu (2015).”
Processing Trade, Tariff Reductions and Firm Productivity: Evidence from Chinese Firms (2015, neutral): “However, more evidence has been found for developing countries, such as Bustos (2011) for Argentina, Schor (2004) for Brazil, Pavcnik (2002) for Chile, Fernandes (2007) for Colombia, Harrison (1994) for Côte d’Ivoire, Krishna and Mitra (1999) and Topalova and Khandelwal (2011) for India, Amiti and ”
Financial Constraints and Productivity: Evidence from Euro Area Companies (2018, neutral): “[27] Fernandes, Ana, (2007), “Trade policy, trade volumes and Plant-level productivity in Colombian Manufacturing Industries”, Journal of Development Economics, Vol.”
Imports and Exports at the Level of the Firm: Evidence from Belgium (2009, neutral): “Amiti and Konings (2007) make a comparative analysis in the spirit of Fernandes (2007).”
Multi-Product Exporters: Product Churning, Uncertainty and Export Discoveries (2010, background): “…Bernard et al., 2007a,b), innovative empirical studies evaluating firm-level responses to trade reforms (Pavcnik, 2002; Trefler, 2004; Schor, 2004; Fernandes, 2007; Harrison, 2007) and pioneering work explaining the determinants of geographical expansion of exporters (Eaton et al., 2004a,b; Eaton…”
Determinants of total factor productivity : a literature review (2007, background): “For instance, Fernandes (2003) studies the impact of trade policy on productivity of Colombian manufacturing plants between 1977 and 1991. Her main findings include: trade liberalisation has a strong positive impact in economic terms on plant productivity; industry productivity gains are due to with”
Learning-by-Doing, Learning-by-Exporting, and Productivity: Evidence from Colombia (2005, positive): “See Fernandes (2003) for further details on LWLS estimation. productivity but are uncorrelated with the unexpected productivity shock.”
Learning-by-Exporting Effects: Are They for Real? (2015, positive): “In the fourth sample, the characteristic is the propensity score of entering into the export market, following Girma et al. (2004) and De Loecker (2006).”
Innovation and Trade with Heterogeneous Firms (2011, neutral): “Differentiating (14), (15) and (13) totally, we obtain   α11 α12 α13 α21 α22 α23 α31 α32 α33     dr dx̂ dŷ   =   β1 β2 β3   dt”
Trade and Growth: Reconciling the Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Evidence (2005, neutral): “See, for example, Tybout et al. (1991), Harrison (1994), Krishna and Mitra (1998), Sjöholm (1999), Alam and Morrison (2000), Fernandes (2002) and Pavcnik (2002).”