Teixeira, Arilton; Herrendorf, Berthold - Fundação Instituto Capixaba de Pesquisas em … - 2009
We ask how barriers to international trade affect TFP when there are monopoly rights in the import-competing industries …. Holmes and Schmitz (1995) show that without barriers to trade TFP in these industries is as large as possible. We study the … quantities, if they produce at all. For both of these reasons, barriers to international trade reduce TFP. …