costs, any difference in export performances could arise because of higher productivity of labor. The paper tests whether … multinational firms, it is not just cheap labor in terms of low wage rate per worker, but low wage in relation to productivity of … more than the productivity of the labor. Among other factors discussed, of the reasons is the low value added nature of the …

Recent Melitz-type (2003) intra-industry heterogonous trade models argue that a firm's productivity has significant … effects on the firm's exports. This paper examines how a firms credit constraints as well as its productivity affect its …

This paper explores how processing trade, jointly with tariff reduction, can improve a firm's productivity. Tariff … reductions generate productivity gain via competition, whereas processing export does so via spillovers. Using mostly …% increase in a firm's productivity gain. In addition, processing firms enjoy significant productivity gains via spillovers, with …

. Second, growth accounting analysis reveals that information technology has not contributed changes of productivity growth … the productivity growth until the late 1980s. Third, estimation of the production function model proves that IT capital …

This paper explores how processing trade, jointly with tariff reduction, can improve a firm's productivity. Tariff … reductions generate productivity gain via competition, whereas processing export does so via spillovers. Using mostly …% increase in a firm's productivity gain. In addition, processing firms enjoy significant productivity gains via spillovers, with …

spending cuts and productivity improvements, tax reforms, and asset sales. We find that a policy that reduces the cost of …-targeted spending on infrastructure to deliver long run productivity improvements. Given New Zealands longer term growth challenge, any … fiscal efforts to stabilise the economy and avoid a more severe recession should have productivity at the centre of the …

productivity. This paper documents the changes in rice productivity, policy and institutions in the last 100 years and identifies … the technological change that may have affected rice productivity. One hundred years has totally changed rice production … practices and improved productivity. Technical innovations that helped improved rice productivity include irrigation, pest …