leading to poor productivity performance are the most plausible explanation of Britain's relative decline. It is argued both …

unemployment this made sense. A bargaining model approach suggests, however, that this had a harmful impact on productivity growth …

distribution costs in the export market, high and low productivity firms react differently to a depreciation . Whereas high … productivity firms optimally raise their markup rather than the volume they export, low productivity firms choose the opposite … aggregate impact of exchange rate movements. The presence of fixed costs to export means that only high productivity firms can …

This paper analyses the welfare implications of international spillovers related to productivity gains, changes in …-equilibrium model with monopolistic competition, drawing a distinction between productivity gains that enhance manufacturing efficiency …

This paper analyzes empirically the effect of spatial agglomeration of activities on the productivity of firms using … location choice: we find very little difference between the geography that would maximize productivity gains and the geography …

This paper examines the role of competition in productivity perfromance in Britain over the period from the late … 1930s to the 1970s undermined productivity growth but since the 1970s stronger competition has been a key ingredient in … ending relative economic decline. The productivity implications of the retreat from competition resulted in large part from …

, notably, into establishing the magnitude and sources of total factor productivity growth. …