One of the key goals of trade policy, which includes FTAs, should be the enhancement of productivity in the overall … economy through the improved productivity of the tradable sector. This can be achieved by enhancing the productivity of … existing firms, and eliminating lowproductivity firms to improve overall industrial productivity. This study examines the …

cover essentially all firms in the Finnish business sector, we first document that labor productivity dispersion is very … market equilibrium and whether innovation subsidies can improve industry productivity by mitigating such a tax distortion. …

innovators from high-productivity firms. These findings suggest that innovation subsidies contribute to economic renewal and the …

This paper analyses the integration of China and India into the global economy. To this end, it presents estimates from … China’s trade intensity is higher than fundamentals would suggest, whereas the converse is true for India. Second, Chinese …, China’s exports of services tend to complement its exports of goods, while India’s exports are growing only in deregulated …

(IPRs) enforcement, with special reference to injunctions in India. It examines how far the courts consider the implications …

competition from the emerging markets, not least China and India. In trade policy, Europe feels the need for a more assertive and …