Trade protection and firm productivity: evidence from Thai manufacturing.
Trade protection and firm productivity: evidence from Thai manufacturing.
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贸易保护和企业生产力：来自泰国制造业的证据。
DOI：
10.1111/deve.12128
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发表时间：
2017
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Archanun Kohpaiboon
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文献类型：
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作者：
Juthathip Jongwanich;Archanun Kohpaiboon
本文以泰国制造业为例，考察了贸易保护对企业生产率的影响。虽然我们的主要发现是支持自由贸易政策环境，但我们认为，在研究投入和产出关税对生产率的影响时，应分别对待它们。在其他条件不变的情况下，降低投入关税可能至少产生两种相反的效果。它使企业在几个方面受益，提高了它们的生产率，同时也由于有效保护水平的提高而阻碍了它们提高生产率的努力。这就需要在进行贸易政策改革时保持谨慎，不要过于关注投入关税，而不触及产出关税。尽管投入和产出关税在促进企业生产率方面的作用不同，但任何贸易政策改革过程都应同时考虑投入和产出关税，以确保贸易真正实现自由化。
This paper examines the effect of trade protection on firm productivity, using the Thai manufacturing sector as a case study. While our main finding is in favor of a liberal trade policy environment, we argue input and output tariffs should be treated separately in examining their impact on productivity. Ceteris paribus, lowering input tariffs potentially has at least two opposite effects. It allows firms to benefit in several ways, enhancing their productivity, while also discouraging their efforts to improve productivity due to the increased level of effective protection. This necessitates caution when pursuing trade policy reform in not placing too much focus on input tariffs while leaving output tariffs untouched. Even though input and output tariffs work differently in promoting firms’ productivity, any trade policy reform process should take both input and output tariffs into consideration in ensuring that trade is actually liberalized.
DOI：
10.2139/ssrn.1475707
发表时间：
2006-12
期刊：
International Trade
影响因子：
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作者：
A. Bernard;S. Redding;Peter K. Schott
通讯作者：
A. Bernard;S. Redding;Peter K. Schott