efficiency. First, treatment firms have higher productivity and quality after accounting for rug specifications. Second, when …

-selecting into innovation in anticipation of their entry into export markets, rather than product and process innovation triggering … entry into the export market. These results suggest that governments can foster firm-level innovation through trade …

We expect trade liberalization to give rise to aggregate productivity gains, as the least efficient firms are forced … importance of intrinsic firm efficiency relative to input quality as sources of exporters’ productivity premium, employing a … matched employer-employee data set for Norwegian manufacturing. Augmented measures of total factor productivity which take …

productivity performance of domestic firms in three emerging economies of Central and Eastern Europe, Bulgaria, Romania and Poland … counterparts? (2) Do foreign firms generate spillovers to domestic firms? The estimation technique in this paper takes potential …

above average size, initial profitability and initial labour productivity. After controlling for this selection bias, we … find that foreign investment has a positive, but statistically insignificant, impact on TFP growth. This is surprising … domestic firm performance, while imports are found to have a significant positive effect on TFP growth of such firms. We …

, firms within an industry that rely significantly upon export sales reduce costs faster than those that rely primarily on the …

We disentangle the contribution of unobserved heterogeneity in idiosyncratic demand and productivity to firm growth. We … important as productivity shocks for firm growth. Second, firms respond to shocks less than a frictionless model would predict …, suggesting the existence of adjustment frictions. Finally, the degree of under-response is much larger for TFP shocks. This …

advantage of the possibility of intertemporal subsitution in order to engage in productivity-improving activities during … trend from the cycle. The results are mildly supportive of the OC theory. Demand shocks tend to have a negative impact on … productivity, both in the short and long run, and the short-run impact is stronger in those countries where fluctuations are more …