down production. This paper asks whether foreign owners are more likely to close plants than domestic owners. In Indonesia … for plant size and productivity, we find that foreign plants are significantly more likely to close than comparable …

: distorted employment decisions, increased productivity, and higher exit rates. Our empirical analysis, using a novel dataset and …% points higher annual productivity growth, and a 3.6% points higher probability of exit for firms with binding employment … after 10 years. Additionally, an alternative policy of productivity investment subsidies proved costly and less effective in …

. Growth accounting exercises show that total factor productivity, FDI conversion efficacy, and foreign technology spillover …

productivity growth, while the older literature focused on average productivity improvements ("learning"). We use comprehensive … role in aggregate productivity gains immediately following the start of India's trade reforms in 1991. However, aggregate … productivity gains during the overall 20-year period from 1985 to 2004 were driven largely by improvements in average productivity …

Despite competition concerns over the increasing dominance of global corporations, many argue that productivity … superstars intensive in R&D, IT and/or human capital. In addition to productivity spillovers, we document the transmission of … firm's existing network. These results suggest an important role for raising productivity through the supply chains of …

emission productivity of the firm. In an extensive empirical analysis we find some support for model predictions, but overall … countries are smaller for industries with higher emission productivity. Our theory and empirical results point to the importance … of accounting for heterogeneity in emission productivity when analyzing effects of climate risks …

When labour market competition is imperfect, positive industry (and firm) productivity shocks can be passed through to …-decade-long productivity boom. There was a thirteen-fold increase in real output per worker between 1980 and 2018, compared to a four … whether this productivity increase has been shared with employees, we find that auto workers experienced far stronger hourly …

, innovation and productivity. Using import data for 146 countries over three decades we document a set of new stylized facts …