increasing in firm productivity while the number of produced products that are exported is weakly increasing in firm productivity … the relationships between firm productivity and the numbers of exported products observed in the data, several demand and …

developing countries, may prevent an efficient allocation of resources. …

We analyse productivity growth in UK manufacturing 1980-92 using the newly available ARD panel of establishments drawn … establishments enter and increase market share). We find that (a) 'external restructuring' accounts for 50% of labour productivity …

patenting. Furthermore, it explains why R&D as a fraction of revenues is strongly related to firm productivity yet largely …

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 …

productivity, ii) exporters charge on average higher markups and iii) firms’ markups increase (decrease) upon export entry (exit …). We see these findings as a first step in opening up the productivity-export black box, and provide a potential … explanation for the big measured productivity premia for firms entering export markets. …