Olper A., Pacca L., Curzi D. (2014). Trade, import competition and productivity growth in the food industry. Food policy, 01/12/2014, vol. 49, n. 1, p. 7183.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2014.06.004
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2014.06.004
Titre : | Trade, import competition and productivity growth in the food industry (2014) |
Auteurs : | A. Olper ; L. Pacca ; D. Curzi |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | Food policy (vol. 49, n. 1, December 2014) |
Article en page(s) : | p. 7183 |
Langues : | Anglais |
Langues du résumé : | Anglais |
Catégories : |
Thésaurus IAMM INDUSTRIE ALIMENTAIRE ; IMPORTATION ; PRODUCTIVITE ; CONCURRENCE ECONOMIQUE ; PAYS DE L'UNION EUROPEENNECatégories principales 10 - INDUSTRIES ; 10.2 - IAA (en général) |
Résumé : | Melitz and Ottavianos (2008) firm-heterogeneity model predicts that trade liberalization induces a selection process from low to high productivity firms, which translates to an industry productivity growth. A similar firms selection effect is induced by market size. In this paper, these predictions are tested across 25 European countries and 9 food industries, over the 19952008 period. Using different dynamic panel estimators we find strong support for the model predictions, namely that an increase in import penetration is systematically positively related to productivity growth. The results are robust to measurement issues in productivity, controlling for market size, country and sector heterogeneities, and for the endogeneity of import competition. Interestingly, this positive relationship is almost exclusively driven by competition in final products coming from developed (especially EU-15) countries suggesting that EU food imports are closer substitutes for domestic production than non-EU imports. These results have some potentially interesting policy implications. |
Cote : | Réservé lecteur CIHEAM |
URL / DOI : | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2014.06.004 |