Trade, Regulation and Firm-Level Productivity in the OECD (original) (raw)

This paper examines how trade and regulation affect firm-level productivity outcomes, acting through international and domestic channels to influence the intensity of competition. The analysis looks across a large number of OECD countries and, taking account of industry-level market structure, uses import penetration and de jure product market regulation measures as proxies for international and domestic competitive pressures. Firm-productivity is measured using an index based on production function estimates from ...