A startling fact of firm level productivity analysis is the large and persistent differences in both labour … productivity and total factor productivity (TFP) between firms in narrowly defined sectoral classes. The competitiveness of an … industry is potentially an important factor explaining this productivity dispersion. The degree of competition has also …

firms with different levels of productivity. A common problem isthat most firm level dataset do not contain information on … output prices of firms which makesit difficult to distinguish between productivity differences and differences in market … powerbetween firms. This paper develops a new econometric framework that allows estimatingboth firm specific productivity and …

firms, and the fact that larger firms supply more products than smaller firms, implies that standard productivity measures … are not independent of demand system assumptions and probably dramatically understate the relative productivity of the …

companies with higher wages, higher productivity and higher capital intensity. The ‘blip up’ in new recognitions is consistent …

Empirical evidence suggests that trade liberalization increases firm productivity. This paper offers a novel … tasks the closer they are to their core competencies, this outsourcing increases firm productivity. Moreover, I also …

productivity of firms. However, there is less consensus about the underlying mechanism at work. While trade papers focus on access … leads to productivity increases, but only for firms that were already highly productive before. The evidence on import … competition is weaker. If anything, initially low-tech firms manage to increase their productivity in response to increased …

Studies of firm-level data have shown that there is a huge dispersion of productivity across firms even when industries … productive. The formers’ convergence could therefore constitute an important part of productivity growth at the macroeconomic … which can explain it. Productivity convergence was stronger for labour productivity than for total factor productivity. But …