index of services liberalization resulted in a productivity increase of 11.7 percent for domestic firms and 13.2 percent for … services. The link between these reforms and the productivity of manufacturing firms is examined using panel data for about 4 … significant positive effects on the productivity of manufacturing firms. Services reforms benefited both foreign and locally …

The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of … technologies and that joint adoption leads to higher productivity. Without having introduced complementary organizational … innovations, the adoption of CO2 reducing technologies is associated with lower productivity. …

Technological change can increase the productivity of the various factors of production in equal terms or it can be … biased towards a specific factor. We develop an estimator for production functions when productivity is multi-dimensional. We …

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

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 …

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

(larger cities promote interactions that increase productivity) and firm selection (larger cities toughen competition allowing … selection model and a standard model of agglomeration. Stronger selection in larger cities left-truncates the productivity … agglomeration and firm selection using French establishment-level data and a new quantile approach. Spatial productivity differences …

productivity of manufacturing industries relying on services inputs. The results, based on firm-level data from the Czech Republic …

supported by hard data. We conclude with an independent study on the accuracy of the IMD competitiveness index in predicting the …