foreign ownership and plant productivity. To control for the possible endogeneity of the FDI decision, a difference … context, is the ability to follow the timing of observed changes in productivity and other aspects of plant performance. The … results suggest that foreign ownership leads to significant productivity improvements in the acquired plants. The improvements …

retail chains leads to a significant increase in the total factor productivity in the supplying industries. Their presence in … a region increases the total factor productivity of firms in the supplying industries by 15.2 percent and doubling the … number of chains leads to a 10.8 percent increase in total factor productivity. However, the expansion benefits larger firms …

productivity of manufacturing industries relying on services inputs. The results, based on firm-level data from the Czech Republic …

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 …

plants exist. The results indicate that divestment is associated with a drop in total factor productivity accompanied by a …

services. The link between these reforms and the productivity of manufacturing firms is examined using panel data for about 4 … significant positive effects on the productivity of manufacturing firms. Services reforms benefited both foreign and locally … index of services liberalization resulted in a productivity increase of 11.7 percent for domestic firms and 13.2 percent for …