We explore the export performance of Africa's underperforming female entrepreneurs, using the Ghanaian ISSER-IGC panel … of key business constraints, across both male and female entrepreneurs. We find that females are less likely to export …

-setting power) and (iii) revenue productivity. We apply this framework to analyze whether the pricing behavior of firms in product … find export status to be positively correlated with both product market power (markups) and market power consolidated on …

productivity (TFP) growth in China. Our primary goal is to test Hicks' induced innovation hypothesis by examining whether technical … find that not only is wage-induced innovation significant and quantitatively important, but also that it substantially … is predominantly driven by wage-induced innovation along with massive injection of heavily subsidized physical inputs in …

and productivity hold in the years before the export start, which indicates self-selection into exporting of more …This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firms that (start to) export … relationship between profitability and starting to export is found. …

evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … taking differences along the conditional productivity distribution and firms with extreme values, or outliers, into account …) indicate that the productivity pecking order found in numerous studies using data for firms from manufacturing industries …

prioritize enhancing innovation and imitation success over cost reduction to boost productivity growth. … examines reasons for this divergence and its impact on productivity growth. Our micro-data reveal R&D concentration among high-productivity … firms in Switzerland. Innovation support sustains firms' R&D activities in both countries. Our structural growth model …

and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … level surveys performed by the Statistical Offices. Our microeconometric analysis confirms previous findings of concave age-productivity … the ceteris paribus lower level of productivity in firms with a higher share of female employees does not go hand in hand …

This paper explores how value-chain governance affects the innovation performance of suppliers of intermediate products … is more conducive to innovation for suppliers, especially when these firms have medium capability levels. Conversely … are also reflected in export performances and sales of innovative products. Our results go partially against other …