How do new and foreign firms achieve superior productivity? Do they conduct more and better R&D? Or do they distinguish … IT and less in R&D than initially state-owned firms. Productivity gains from R&D and non-technology investment are … investment. New firm productivity growth is a result of higher investment volume rather than investment efficiency. …

While there has been a large empirical literature on productivity spillovers from multinationals this literature treats … experience in a multinational, and relate this information to firm level productivity. Our results suggest that firms which are …

exporting and productivity shows that exporters on average are more efficient than nonexporters. If that is the case we may also …

international division of labour. We concentrate on the question, to what extent they have caught up with the productivity level of … their Western counterparts of similar size and sector and how this productivity difference is related to changes in their … policy and productivity information for individual manufacturers from both parts of the country. Using a decomposition …

-specific characteristics such as size, productivity, human capital, experience on the national market in Germany, etc. on the firms' export … a control for unobserved heterogeneity, the positive effects of productivity and human capital disappear, indicating …