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 …

The US has experienced a sustained increase in productivity growth since the mid-1990s, particularly in sectors that … intensively use information technologies (IT). This has not occurred in Europe. If the US “productivity miracle” is due to a … abroad. This paper shows in fact that US multinationals operating in the UK do have higher productivity than non …

structurally estimate the key parameters of our model to construct counterfactual size, productivity and welfare distributions …

structured practices for performance monitoring, target setting and incentives enjoy greater productivity and profitability …

Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro …

productivity. This paper is part of a smaller literature on the effects of training on direct measures of industrial productivity …. We analyse a panel of British industries between 1983 and 1996. Training information (and other individual productivity … use a variety of panel data techniques (including system GMM) to argue that training significantly boosts productivity …