We study the relation between firms financial structure, access to external finance and labor productivity using a … to estimate the direct impact of access to finance to firm-level productivity. We find negative and significant effects … estimated loss of around 21% of their labor productivity. In addition, each country would gain on average between one and two …

The study aims at describing productivity growth in the manufacturing sector for a selected panel of five European … countries using firm-level data. The paper explores the empirical regularities of firm productivity distribution across … countries. In particular, we assess the degree of persistence of firm relative productivity and consider its effect on aggregate …

new dataset to document the relationships between firms' financial and financing conditions and their productivity …

productivity using a large dataset of firm-level data for Euro-area countries during the period 1995-2011. Our empirical strategy …-level production equation to assess the direct impact of access to finance to firm-level productivity. We estimate the impact of … financial constraints on a measure of labor productivity and we find significant and negative effects in the majority of sectors …

new dataset to document the relationships between firms’ financial and financing conditions and their productivity. …

This paper presents empirical evidence of the effect of FDI inflows on productivity convergence in central and eastern … Europe, using industry-level data. Four conclusions stand out. First, there is a strong convergence effect in productivity …, both at the country and at the industry level. Second, FDI inflow plays an important role in accounting for productivity …

The study aims at describing productivity growth in the manufacturing sector for a selected panel of five European … countries using firm-level data. The paper explores the empirical regularities of firm productivity distribution across … countries. In particular, we assess the degree of persistence of firm relative productivity and consider its effect on aggregate …

productivity convergence among euro area countries. While no convergence can be found on the aggregate level, selected service … sectors and manufacturing sub-industries indicate evidence of convergence. In a search for factors influencing productivity …

productivity convergence among euro area countries. While no convergence can be found on the aggregate level, selected service … sectors and manufacturing sub-industries indicate evidence of convergence. In a search for factors influencing productivity …