Does Trade Liberalisation Hurt Nigeria’s Manufacturing Sector?

Asymmetric trade liberalisation, sector heterogeneity and innovation

Innovation, mark-ups and the degree of trade openness vary substantially across sectors. This paper builds a multi-sector endogenous growth model to study the in‡uence of asymmetric trade liberalisation and sectoral di¤erences in the degree of product market competition on the e¤ect that trade has on R&D investments at a …rm level. I …nd that di¤erences in the degree of competition generate lar...

Trade Liberalisation and Plant Exit in New Zealand Manufacturing

Data on New Zealand manufacturing plants are used to examine the impact of trade liberalisation on plant exit. Recent theories suggest that the prospect of a declining market might lead firms to strategic behaviour that causes low cost plants to exit first. This hypothesis is generally unsupported. Surviving plants were larger, lower cost, and were owned by specialised firms with few plants. Pl...

Intra-Industry Trade in Malaysian Manufacturing Sector

As a result of rapid economic growth and increased influence of globalization in international trade activities, intra-industry trade (IIT) becomes prominent across Asia including Malaysia. Free trade agreements and creations of free trade areas have encourage increased cross border investments through production networking as well as fragmentation of production, especially in manufacturing sec...

TRADE LIBERALISATION Lecture Notes

Trade Liberalisation and Tuberculosis

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