colleagues. We estimate the rate of knowledge diffusion inside the firm using two matched worker-firm data sets from Morocco and … diffusion is around 7 percent in Morocco and Senegal, but part of the learning-by-watching returns stems from firm heterogeneity … Morocco …

Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia face challenges competing on the global markets, as shown by their relatively low and … misalignment, including in recent years, the exchange rates in Morocco and Tunisia have broadly reflected the underlying … misalignments. Intra-regional trade – both with North Africa and the rest of the continent – together with greater orientation to …

Morocco's trade liberalization policies have promoted economic progress over the past two decades. However, effects on … Morocco's local labor market outcomes vary. By combining three complementary approaches and modeling techniques, this paper … estimates: (i) how trade agreements have increased trade flows, (ii) the relationship between trade exposure and mixed local …

paper I illustrate their long-term consequences. I first consider the influence of the slave trade on the "sending … consequences of the slave trade on the "receiving" countries in the Americas. Here I distinguish between the case of Latin America …

other is a market-making mode where an intermediary offers a platform for buyers and sellers to trade with each other. In …

The literature has pointed to different causes to explain the productivity gap between Europe and United States in the … last decades. This paper tests the hypothesis that the lower European productivity performance in comparison with the US …&D investment into productivity gains. The proposed microeconometric estimates are based on a unique longitudinal database covering …

specification of TFP is based on a "neo-Schumpeterian" empirical specification in which productivity improvements depend on growth … at the global technological frontier and a catch up term. We assume that regulation can affect productivity growth both … to reduce the productivity performance of firms. The negative effect is particularly strong on firms characterised by an …

Manasse and Turrini (2001) that establish the theoretical base of trade models with heterogeneous firms. Our model is … understand the link between institutions and an economy's productivity distribution …

This paper analyzes whether part-time employment is beneficial for firm productivity in the service sector. Using a … productivity, we estimate a production function including heterogeneous employment shares based on work hours. We find that a … larger part-time employment share leads to greater firm productivity. Additional data on the timing of labor demand show that …