Firm competitiveness

Analysis of Firm competitiveness

Maria BAS

maria.bas@univ-paris1.fr (maria.bas @ univ-paris1.fr)

Lesson 1:

• Main Datasets and different sources
• Macro data Industry-level data Firm level data
• Country competitiveness
• Measures of firm performance,
• Complementarity between input quality and skills to upgrade output quality

Lesson 2:

• Structural Reforms and Firm performance in Developing countries
• Main structural reforms in Developing countries in the 90’
• The effect of structural reforms on productivity, growth
• The effect of structural reforms on firms’ investments and export/import activity

Lesson 3:

• Services sector reforms
• The effects of services reforms on manufacturing firm’ performance
• Input-output linkages
• Productivity and export patterns of manufacturing firms

Lesson 4:

• Trade reforms and firm productivity
• Disentangling the effect of output and input tariffs ⋄ Foreign competition channel
• Imported inputs channel

Evaluation :

-Final project on firm and country competitiveness

-Oral and written presentation of the repport.

Suggested readings:

Goldberg, Khandelwal, Pavcnik and Topalova (2010) ”Multi-product Firms and Product Turnover in the Developing World: Evidence from India”, Review of Economics and Statistics.

Bas, M. and C. Paunov (2021), Input quality and skills are complementary and increase output quality: Causal evidence from Ecuador’s trade liberalization, Journal of Development Economics.

Verhoogen, 2021, Firm-Level Upgrading in Developing Countries. Mimeo.

Aghion, Robin Burgess, Stephen J. Redding, Fabrizio Zilibotti, (2008) ”The Unequal Effects of Liberalization: Evidence from. Dismantling the License Raj in India”, American Economic Review.

Arnold, Javorcik, Lipscomb and Mattoo Services Reform and Manufacturing Performance: Evidence from India. forthcoming in the Economic Journal.

Bas, M. ”Does Services Liberalization affect Manufacturing Firms’ Export Performance? Evidence from India”, Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 42 (3), pp. 569-589, August 2014.

Pavcnik, Nina, 2002, Trade liberalization, Exit and Productivity improvements: Evidence from Chilean Plants, Review of Economic Studies, 69, 245-276.

Amiti, M. and Konings, J. ”Trade Liberalization, Intermediate Inputs, and Productivity”. American Economic Review, December vol. 97(05) December 2007, pp.1611-1638.