This Paper analyses the production efficiency gains in terms of technology transfer and labour productivity changes … firms operating in Greece in 1997. Departures from normality of labour productivity and its logarithm led to the adoption of … productivity which stems exclusively from full and majority owned affiliates and becomes significant only in the middle quantiles …

perspective. It emphasizes the ‘opportunity cost’ approach, which states that firms will intertemporally substitute productivity …

foreign ownership and plant productivity. To control for the possible endogeneity of the FDI decision, a difference … context, is the ability to follow the timing of observed changes in productivity and other aspects of plant performance. The … results suggest that foreign ownership leads to significant productivity improvements in the acquired plants. The improvements …

retail chains leads to a significant increase in the total factor productivity in the supplying industries. Their presence in … a region increases the total factor productivity of firms in the supplying industries by 15.2 percent and doubling the … number of chains leads to a 10.8 percent increase in total factor productivity. However, the expansion benefits larger firms …

This paper estimates the effects of trade liberalization on plant productivity. In contrast to previous studies, we … distinguish between productivity gains arising from lower tariffs on final goods relative to those on intermediate inputs. Lower … output tariffs can produce productivity gains by inducing tougher import competition whereas cheaper imported inputs can …

, using UK experience as empirical focus. We show that a productivity burst simulation is capable of explaining the …

overdraft facility on productivity. To overcome potential omitted variable bias of OLS estimates, we use information on firms …

This paper calculates returns to scale and productivity growth in UK manufacturing establishments in the electronics … productivity growth. We use a matching and difference-in-differences methodology which allows us to construct a reasonable … counterfactual and to determine the post-acquisition changes in RTS and productivity that can be attributed to the incidence of …