above average size, initial profitability and initial labor productivity. After controlling for this selection bias, we find … that foreign investment has a positive, but statistically insignificant, impact on TFP (Total Factor Productivity) growth …

Even though it is well documented that privatization leads to an improvement in the performance of state … because it does not consider the performance of control firms of similar pre-privatization situations, i.e. the performance of … following privatization. Matching sample firms (privatized) to control firms (SOEs), I document that privatized firms do not …

efficiency gains result from better incentives and productivity, rather than from wholesale firing of employees and profitability …

low productivity firms might evidence either lower, unaffected or higher incentives to innovate. The empirical application … shows that low productivity firms exhibit higher incentives to innovate. Third, although the theoretical analysis shows that … the lower the productivity level the more the incentives to contract ICT consulting, the empirical evidence is …

' labor productivity (sales per employee) and innovative behavior (R&D intensities and value of introduced product and process … open source software applications has no impact on firm level labor productivity, while the adoption of open source … operating systems for PCs impacts labor productivity negatively. This result suggests that the adoption of this type of OSS …