member of such a cluster initiative has an impact on the Total Factor Productivity (TFP) of the firm. We exploit firm … Flemish SHC policy on productivity. …

Until today, the question of how digitalisation and, in particular, individual digital technologies affect productivity … analytics (BDA) on labour productivity (LP) at the firm level. We find that a simple binary measure indicating the mere usage of …

% points higher annual productivity growth, and a 3.6% points higher probability of exit for firms with binding employment …This paper investigates a unique policy designed to maintain employment during the privatization of East German firms … after the fall of the Iron Curtain. The policy required new owners of the firms to commit to employment targets, with …

explanation. Venture-backed firms are mostly located in urban districts. A main reason is the advantage of urban regions to … venture-backed firms in districts. …

address these questions using the geo-coordinates of Chinese manufacturing firms and find that export widens inter-city and …

We investigate the impact of product market competition on firms’ automation investments. We use a rich combination of … liberalization between the European Union and Central and Eastern European countries in the 1990s. We find that firms facing greater … the least productive firms, while the most efficient exporters in industries that are more prone to automation tend to …

cluster. Yet, most studies on the productivity effects of agglomerations measure innovation with patent data, thus capturing … alternative proxy for productivity, complementing the literature by covering a broad range of software engineering. With user … activity data covering the years 2015 to 2021, we relate cluster size to an individual's productivity. Our findings suggest …

governance and market discipline on productivity growth. We find that firms under concentrated ownership tend to show … for firms in financial distress. Regarding market discipline, productivity grows faster when competition on product …Using a large panel of German manufacturing firms over the years 1986-1996, this study examines the impact of corporate …