market to market which is consistent with that low productive firms are confined to markets with low productivity thresholds …. We further show that selection also applies to number of products traded. Both export and import productivity premiums …

This paper serves as another complementary link in a chain of a rather limited number of investigations in the R&D-innovation-productivity … relationship within service industries. Innovation has been found to be a major contributor to productivity growth in manufacturing … evidence that the reported weak rate of productivity growth in knowledge intensive services can be explained by a low …

Using a unique plant-level dataset we examine green productivity growth in Sweden’s heavily regulated pulp and paper …-Luenberger productivity index which accounts for air and water pollutants as undesirable outputs. Some of our key findings are: (1) regulation …

between regional productivity measures as gross regional product per square kilometre and accessibility to educated labour. We …

number of national firm level studies on the innovation-productivity link have been conducted using new internationally …, innovation output and productivity, we find to a very large extent a common cross-country story for knowledge intensive …

This study proposes an alternative methodology for measuring environmentally sensitive productivity growth. The … combination, the conventional Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index is modified to give the alternative sequential … environmentally sensitive productivity index. This proposed index is employed in measuring productivity growth and its decomposed …

-exporters. However, many firms from the lower end of the productivity distribution are exporters. Germany is a case in point. A recent … study reports that these low-productivity exporters are not marginal exporters defined according to the share of exports in … exports is much higher among exporters from the lower end of the productivity distribution than among highly productive …

This paper is concerned with the productivity and growth of Swedish exporting firms. Using data on 9,580 manufacturing … that does not engage in innovation and has scarce access to external knowledge, the level of productivity is 2-12 percent …