We study the relation between firms financial structure, access to external finance and labor productivity using a … to estimate the direct impact of access to finance to firm-level productivity. We find negative and significant effects … estimated loss of around 21% of their labor productivity. In addition, each country would gain on average between one and two …

increase in fossil fuel prices on sectoral size, labor productivity, and inflation. A hike in the price of fossil resources … display higher idiosyncratic productivity. While this process enhances average labor productivity, it also results in a … cost in terms of output and lower average productivity, but leads to a faster recovery in business dynamism. Thus, our …

This paper provides a new cross-country evaluation of competitiveness, focusing on the linkages between productivity … establish new stylized facts regarding the joint distributions of the firm-level exports performance and productivity in a panel …-exporters. However, this productivity premium is rising with the export experience of firms, with permanent exporters being much more …

We propose a novel, multilaterally consistent productivity approach-based indicator to assess the international price … attention has been paid to an appropriate selection of price and productivity data in levels as opposed to indices, and to the …