efficiency. First, treatment firms have higher productivity and quality after controlling for rug specifications. Second, when …

model in which technical advances are embodied in new capital, investment will translate directly into productivity gains … growth than the sum of the contributions of parent and affiliate employment, and materials; (2) productivity has boomed since … 1992, due to productivity growth in MNCs with Canadian affiliates; (3) the investment elasticity of productivity growth is …

regulation, rather than changes in productivity and trade, account for most of the emissions reductions …

increased competition from demand shocks in export markets - and the induced product mix reallocations - induce productivity … changes within the firm. We then empirically test for this connection between the demand shocks and the productivity of multi …-product firms exporting to those destinations. We find that the effect of those demand shocks on productivity are substantial - and …

attracted to targets in the domestic country that had high productivity levels several years prior to acquisition, but then … suffered a negative productivity shock (i.e., cherries for sale). With high ex ante productivity levels, target firms are able … trade costs. Subsequently, domestic firms that experience reductions in productivity no longer find their established …