After presenting a brief review of econometric models of export performance using time-series data and reporting the findings of earlier studies on export function estimation for India's engineering exports, the author discusses the data and measurement of variables and analyses the estimates of...

Total factor productivity growth in Indian manufacturing decelerated in the 1990s, a decade of major economic reforms in India. Econometric analysis presented in the paper indicates that the lowering of effective protection to industries favorably affected productivity growth. The results...

Using panel data for 137 three-digit industries for 1980/81 to 1997/98, the paper examines the effect of trade liberalization on price-cost margins in Indian industries. An econometric model is estimated to explain variations in price-cost margins, taking tariff and nontariff barriers among the...