Using a unique German firm-level data set, we provide empirical evidence for a productivity sorting along two …

patterns of firms within the same sector. Helpman, Melitz and Yeaple (2005) develop a model in which innate productivity … allows us to compare productivity over the entire distribution. Our results show robust support for the prediction from …

Inventors often experience a low productivity after their company has been subject to a merger or acquisition (M … capacity for the post-merger patent productivity of the acquired inventors. Based on a sample of 544 inventors employed by … European acquisition targets in the period 2000-2001 it is shown that the post-merger productivity of acquired inventors is …

industry diversity. Moreover, labour productivity is positively linked to global sourcing. The findings support arguments for … the importance of the Internet for global trade and they confirm the productivity advantage of importing in comparison to …