IMPROVED ACCESS TO FOREIGN MARKETS RAISES PLANT-LEVEL PRODUCTIVITY ... FOR SOME PLANTS

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Lileeva, Alla; Trefler, Daniel
• 署名单位: York University - Canada; University of Toronto; Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR); National Bureau of Economic Research
• 刊物名称: QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-5533
• DOI: 10.1162/qjec.2010.125.3.1051
• 发表日期: 2010
• 页码: 1051-1099
• 关键词: research-and-development; trade liberalization; Firm productivity; INTERNATIONAL-TRADE; export; PARTICIPATION; GROWTH; ORGANIZATION; investments; performance

摘要

Market size matters for innovation and hence for productivity. Improved access to foreign markets will thus encourage firms to simultaneously export and invest in raising productivity. We examine this insight using the responses of Canadian plants to the elimination of U. S. tariffs. Unique plant-specific tariff cuts serve as an instrument for changes in exporting. We find that Canadian plants that were induced by the tariff cuts to start exporting or to export more (a) increased their labor productivity, (b) engaged in more product innovation, and (c) had higher adoption rates for advanced manufacturing technologies. Further, these responses were heterogeneous.