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Lesson 1: Trade and Firm Productivity

The effects of trade liberalization on firm performance

⋄ Trade reforms and product growth ⋄ Imported input varieties
⋄ Product innovation

Maria Bas Firm competitiveness: lesson 1

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Lesson 2: Trade and Firm Productivity

The effects of trade liberalization on firm performance

• ⋄  Causality: productivity −− > export activity

• ⋄  Estimation issues

• ⋄  Learning by exporting

  Suggested readings:

  De Loecker, Jan, 2007, Do exports generate higher productivity? Evidence from Slovenia, Journal of International Economics 73 (1): 69-98.

Maria Bas Firm competitiveness: lesson 1

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Lesson 2: Trade and Firm technology choice

The effects of trade liberalization on firm performance

⋄ Trade reforms and foreign technology
⋄ Complementarity imported inputs and capital goods ⋄ Supply mechanisms

Maria Bas Firm competitiveness: lesson 1

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Lesson 3: Quality upgrading and product growth

Prices and quality
Demand for quality products; Quality as a demand shifter (CES), Endogenous supply of quality;

Maria Bas Firm competitiveness: lesson 1

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Lesson 3: The role of product quality

Input-trade liberalization and quality upgrading.
Input-trade liberalization and new varieties.
Input-trade liberalization and skilled-biased technical change.

Suggested readings:

Bas, M and Paunov, C. What gains and distributional implications result from trade liberalization?, mimeo.

Khandelwal, A., Schott, P., Wei, S., 2013. Trade liberalization and embedded institutional reform: evidence from Chinese exporters. American Economic Review. 103 (6), 2169-2195.

Maria Bas Firm competitiveness: lesson 1

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Lesson 4: Trade, Prices, Mark-ups, Pass-through

Prices also reflect changes in markups.
How firms adjust their markups to input tarffs cuts

Maria Bas Firm competitiveness: lesson 1

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Lesson 4: Trade, Prices, Mark-ups, Pass-through

Trade liberalization and Markups Tariffs pass-through on prices

Suggested readings:

De Loecker, P. Goldberg, A. Khandelwal and N. Pavcnik, ”Prices, Markups and Trade Reform”, Econometrica, 84(2), 445-510, 2016