Article
Trade Liberalization and Productivity Growth: New Evidence from the Turkish Rubber Industry
Applied Economics
(1997)
Abstract
This paper empirically examines the effects of a change in foreign trade regime on productivity growth. Based on a Generalized Leontief factor demand function system, total factor productivity growth (TFPG) rates are calculated for the Turkish rubber industry during a substantial trade liberalization in the 1980s: TFPG was significantly higher following trade liberalization. Technological change was the major contributor to this growth. When a panel data estimation technique is used to explain technological change, the effects of trade liberalization become clearer: a one percentage point increase in the protection level led to more than a one percentage point (1.27) decline in the technological change rate.
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Publication Date
1997
DOI
10.1080/000368497326831
Citation Information
Omer Gokcekus. "Trade Liberalization and Productivity Growth: New Evidence from the Turkish Rubber Industry" Applied Economics Vol. 29 Iss. 5 (1997) p. 639 - 645 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/omer_gokcekus/25/