Import Competition, Domestic Regulation and Firm-Level Productivity Growth in the OECD

Sarah Ben Yahmed (1, 2) , Sean Dougherty (3, 4, 5)

1 IEP Aix-en-Provence - Sciences Po Aix - Institut d'études politiques d'Aix-en-Provence
2 GREQAM - Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille
3 CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne
4 PSE - Paris School of Economics
5 OCDE - Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Economiques = Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

This paper examines how import penetration affects firms' productivity growth taking into account the heterogeneity in firms' distance to the efficiency frontier and country differences in product market regulation.

Keywords: Firm productivity growth; Behind-the-border regulatory barriers; Product market regulation; Import competition; international trade

Domains: Economics and Finance

Sarah Ben Yahmed, Sean Dougherty. Import Competition, Domestic Regulation and Firm-Level Productivity Growth in the OECD. 2014. ⟨hal-00959389⟩