contrast, domestic regulatory impediments to competition are not robustly correlated with product innovation. "--World Bank web …

"The empirical evidence on whether participation in export markets increases plant-level productivity has been … productivity increases 4-5 percent for each additional year a plant has exported, after controlling for the effect of current … exports on total factor productivity. Learning-by-exporting is more important for young than for old plants and in industries …

This report presents a framework - Skills Toward Employment and Productivity (STEP), that provides a simple yet …

a run on the central bank, or generate a run on the central bank once contingent liabilities exceed reserves and the …. "--World Bank web site …

obtain measures of bank level productivity by employing the techniques due to Levinsohn and Petrin (2003). They then relate … their private peers, and that privatization has increased productivity. "--World Bank web site … purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impacts of these changes in banking on total factor productivity. The authors first …

different prior assumptions on expected model size. "--World Bank web site …