leads to productivity increases, but only for firms that were already highly productive before. The evidence on import …-profit maximizing managers to reconcile theory with the evidence. Empirically, I find that all productivity upgrades are driven by … productivity of firms. However, there is less consensus about the underlying mechanism at work. While trade papers focus on access …

-level productivity, profitability, Tobin’s Q, sales growth and survival rates. Management practices also display significant cross …

-proportions-inspired work on offshoring and heterogeneous firms in trade, we build industry-level measures of import competition. Combining … Manufactures, and transaction-level trade data, we find that rising import competition from China and other developing economies …

failure of meritocracy that reduces a firm’s Total Factor Productivity. We present a simple model that studies the … Factor Productivity. …

an illustrative theoretical model that shows how the combination between high risk aversion and low initial productivity … controlled firms do indeed export less than other type of companies even after controlling for firm heterogeneity in productivity …

that these cross holdings facilitate an effective internal capital market. We find little evidence that managers have an …

United States or Sweden. Nevertheless the contribution to the long run growth of labour productivity stemming from even the …

This paper uses new product-specific, micro-level US data to show that New England had lower levels of productivity in …-abundant country – has higher labour productivity contradicts the Rothbarth-Habakkuk model. We suggest Britain’s industrial success …

We study the productivity of US owned plants in the UK. Using a new dataset that identifies foreign and domestic MNEs …

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