database and its ownership structure information, we show that, in most economies, domestic firms tend to employ more workers …. The analysis of the switchers (ownership changes from domestic to foreign or vice versa) suggests that ownership changes … per asset seem to come from technological differences rather than from different ownership structures …

This paper examines the impact of highway expansion on aggregate productivity growth and sectoral reallocation between … and indirect impact of trade costs on city productivity. I then construct an instrumental variable to examine the causal … productivity growth by facilitating firm entry, exit and reallocation. I also find evidence that the national highway system led to …

. Using cross-country enterprise survey data, this paper shows that firms engaged in e-commerce have higher productivity and … percent higher productivity and generate about 50 percent more of their revenues from exports. The results presented in this … productivity and exports when essential elements are in place for its effective use, such as reliable electricity …

Italy's labor productivity in market services has declined since 2000, underperforming manufacturing and peer European …

time, industry-level analysis suggests ample scope to raise productivity, especially in services where productivity gains …

have also contributed to increasing productivity and long-term growth. We explore empirically the impact of GVC … participation on productivity in Estonia using firm-level data from 2000 to 2016. We find that higher GVC participation at the … industry level significantly boosts productivity at both the industry and the firm level. Frontier firms, large firms, and …

the growth in labor. If GDP is divided by labor, productivity growth appears to have been slower than in peers. This … chapter discusses both exogenous and endogenous factors behind the disappointing productivity growth in the Netherlands and …

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 …

-distributed firm productivity, which has become a tractable benchmark. This benchmark model predicts that, conditional on the fixed …-level productivity, fixed costs and demand shifters, and use 'exact hat algebra' to quantify the effects of a decline in trade costs on …