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Imported Inputs and Productivity
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We estimate a model of importers in Hungarian microdata and conduct counterfactual analysis to investigate the effect of imported inputs on productivity. We find that importing all input varieties would increase a firm’s revenue productivity by 22 percent, about one-half of which is due to imperfect substitution between foreign and domestic inputs. Foreign firms use imports more effectively and pay lower fixed import costs. We attribute one-quarter of Hungarian productivity growth during the 1993–2002 period to imported inputs. Simulations show that the productivity gain from a tariff cut is larger when the economy has many importers and many foreign firms. (JEL D24, F13, F14, L60)
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Metadata
- Authors
- Halpern, L., Koren, M., & Szeidl, A.
- Venue
- American Economic Review
- Publisher
- American Economic Association
- Published
- 2015-12-01
- Volume
- 105
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 3660-3703
- ISSN
- 0002-8282 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2256159506
- Cited by
- 967
- References
- 2
- FWCI
- 176.42
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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