Does Input-Trade Liberalization Affect Firms’ Foreign Technology Choice?

This paper studies the impact of input-trade liberalization on firms’ decision to upgrade foreign technology embodied in imported capital goods. Our empirical analysis is motivated by a simple theoretical framework of endogenous technology adoption, heterogeneous firms and imported inputs. The model...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bas, Maria, Berthou, Antoine
Format: Journal Article
Published: Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2018
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30956