productivity, while import liberalization has ambiguous effects. Resource misallocation can either amplify, dampen or reverse the … productivity gains. Guided by theory, we provide evidence consistent with these effects operating through reallocations across … firms in the presence of distortions: (i) Both export and import expansion increase average firm productivity, but the …

sectors are weighed down by the structural barriers that have depressed productivity more broadly. Italy’s future …

Recently, the export performance of France relative to its own past and relative to a major trading partner, Germany … an increase in unit labor costs or in its terms of trade, France adjusts relatively less via price and wage changes, and …

Advanced economies have been witnessing a pronounced slowdown of productivity growth since the global financial crisis … productivity slowdown over the past two decades in four closely integrated European countries, Austria, Denmark, Germany and the … Netherlands, based on firm-level data. Participation in global value chains appears to have affected productivity positively …

to scale. Total factor productivity growth, estimated as an unobservable variable, has declined steadily since the late …

Total factor productivity (TFP) of 14 manufacturing sectors in France has kept up with that of the United States during … indicate that sectors further behind the technological frontier experience faster productivity growth and that spending on …