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 …

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 …

power in global markets. First, competition has declined around the world, measured as a moderate increase in average firm …

This paper presents empirical evidence on the impact of competition on firm productivity. Using firm-level observations … competition and our measures of productivity. We also find that countries that implemented product-market reforms had a more … pronounced increase in competition, and correspondingly, in productivity: the contribution to productivity growth due to …

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

tariffs higher up and further down in the value chain depress value added, employment, labor productivity and total factor … productivity to varying degrees. We find no benefits for the sector that enjoys additional protection, yet there is some evidence …

environment for innovation and entrepreneurship to draw the economy into higher productivity activities …