network in firm performance. We develop a simple model where firms can outsource tasks and search for suppliers in different …' buyer-seller linkages, we find significant improvements in firm performance as well as creation of new buyer-seller links …

productivity and restructuring. Unlike previous studies we are able to account for the heterogeneity across firms in their exposure … appreciation of the Norwegian Krone in the early 2000s on Norwegian manufacturing firms which differ substantially in their trade … orientation. A change in the real exchange rate (RER) affects a firm through three different channels: (i) firm's export sales …

We investigate theoretically and empirically the competitive effects of increased trade on prices, productivity and … productivity. In response to an increase in openness, markups show a steep short run decline, which partly reverses later, while … productivity rises in a manner that increases over time. Our estimates suggest that EU manufacturing prices fell by 2 …

total factor productivity (TFP) and static measures of capital misallocation within a country. Using data on 5 … time-series volatility of productivity are also characterized by greater cross-sectional dispersion in productivity …. Volatility in TFP explains one quarter to one third of cross-country productivity dispersion. We document a similar relationship …

We measure the impact of a drastic new technology for producing steel, the minimill, on the aggregate productivity of U …'s productivity is linked to this new technology, and operates through two distinct mechanisms. First, minimills displaced the older … in the industry's productivity. Second, increased competition, due to the expansion of minimills, drove a substantial …

inefficiency and stresses a need for institutional adjustments. We show that cooperation by water trade and the introduction of …

In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of … performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and sustained effects of entrepreneurs at all levels of the performance … suggest that an often overlooked factor -- individual entrepreneurs -- plays a large role in affecting firm performance. …

of ownership structure and consequently its effect on a firm's performance Ownership concentration had been quite high in … change in a firm’s performance and no industry sector was found to have a specific effect on it. We found evidence that … several types of owners have an effect on certain performance measures. There does not exist support that type of owner has an …