technologies. Based on the trade in value-added data of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the share of … needed by producers and exporters. Improving the regulatory regime for services trade is especially crucial to enable …

This paper examines the evidence on service innovation using the 2012 Census of Philippine Business and Industry and …

the period 1973-2014 through the lens of the automotive manufacturing industry. It discusses the factors that will … manufacturing industry. Information externalities and coordination failure seem to constitute the major challenges to the sector …

available to assist firms in innovating. Networking, linkages, and collaboration among the government, industry associations …

productive firms. As the results show, exposure to trade forces the least efficient firms out of the industry. The results also … the light of the substantial trade reforms implemented in the Philippines over the last two decades, the paper examines … the impact of trade reforms on the exit of domestic firms controlling for firm characteristics that may affect firm death …

What is the impact of the removal of barriers to trade on the firms` innovative activities? Does the increase in … competition arising from trade reforms lead to increases in innovation? This paper attempts to examine the link between trade … liberalization and innovation using firm panel data on the Philippine manufacturing industry. With the framework of Impulliti and …

labor-intensive products sectors. Our experience has shown that trade liberalization does not automatically lead to a …The paper aims to review our trade liberalization policy and its contribution to the country's industrial growth and … performance. After more than twenty years of liberalization, the overall performance of the manufacturing industry has been weak …

, firm size, and capital labor ratio matter in assessing the impact of trade reform on the wage premium. Lastly, exports are …The paper aims to examine how trade liberalization affects wage premium at the firm level. Using effective protection … rate as trade proxy, the paper assumes that in the face of increasing competition, an import-substituting firm may decide …