some previous studies, we find that the relation between entry barriers and productivity is negative. This relation is …

constraints act as a barrier to firm export expansion by decreasing the firm ability to finance the entry costs into new export … information on export destinations of individual firms and allows us to construct various firm-level measures of financial … of newly served destinations. Second, higher probability of exit from the export market is also associated with credit …

In most advanced economies, both real interest rates and productivity growth have decreased since the early 1990s. In … this paper, we explore the mechanism whereby a circular relationship links these two quantities. While productivity is a … the expected return from investment projects, and thus of the productivity level required for investment. In our model …

second part of our analysis, we estimate the impacts of our new measures on Total Factor Productivity (TFP) in the framework …

The productivity slowdown has been analysed as an effect of weaker technological progress, of the digital economy or of … frontier, productivity has accelerated, especially over the recent period, which contradicts the hypothesis of a decline in …' productivity does not seem to have slowed down in the 2000s, which does not confirm the hypothesis of a decrease in the …

fixed offshoring costs. In the skill-abundant country, high-productivity firms offshore a larger range of labor …-intensive inputs to the labor-abundant countries than low-productivity firms. Differently from the traditional versions of factor … in skill intensity that is positively correlated with firm productivity. Using French firm-level data for the years 1996 …