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 …

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 …

The first aim of this paper is to decompose the productivity advantage of foreign multinationals into two components … two components of productivity growth. We do so by analyzing the effects of an acquisition of a domestic establishment by … rate of technology transfer from the MNE parent companies, (iii) the productivity growth effects are not confined to the …

livestock if economic returns are negative, or are these estimates wrong? We discuss potential explanations, including labor … market failures, for why livestock investments may persist. …

help explain current differences in total factor productivity and income per capita across countries. …

nearly one third of euro area labour productivity growth. The results point to a significant decline in the contribution of … total factor productivity to euro area growth. …

evidence of increased Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth for firms protected by AD measures compared to firms that did not …

productivity growth. …

, notably, into establishing the magnitude and sources of total factor productivity growth. …