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

plants exist. The results indicate that divestment is associated with a drop in total factor productivity accompanied by a … decline in output, markups as well as export and import intensity. The findings are consistent with the benefits of foreign …

level of income and export intensity. Specifically, the paper investigates theoretically and empirically how financial … constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities. Theoretical predictions are tested using unique firm survey data … constraints strongly adversely affect the ability of domestically owned firms to innovate and to export and hence to catch up to …

adopt a model of firm heterogeneity and export participation which we estimate to match moments of the French data using the …

This paper investigates whether the arrival of managers with export experience, i.e. experience acquired through … participation in the export activity of previous employers, is related to firms' international trade status and to what extent this …. Contrary to blue and white collars, we find that managers are paid a sizeable premium for export experience which has both a …

reconcile the conflicting primal and dual estimates of productivity growth over the period. …

multi-country sourcing model in which heterogeneous firms self-select into importing based on their productivity and country …

panel of industries in 17 countries from 1993-2007. We find that industrial robots increased both labor productivity and ….37 percentage points. We also find that robots increased both wages and total factor productivity. While robots had no significant …

This paper documents industrial output and labor productivity growth around the poor periphery 1870-1975 (Latin America … catching up? Productivity growth certainly made their industries more competitive in home and foreign markets, but other forces …

This paper examines the role of competition in productivity perfromance in Britain over the period from the late … 1930s to the 1970s undermined productivity growth but since the 1970s stronger competition has been a key ingredient in … ending relative economic decline. The productivity implications of the retreat from competition resulted in large part from …