advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent … privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … efficiency frontier is much larger than that of the Czech firms and continued to grow for most firms beyond 1997 while remaining …

efficiency of co-ops; and on problems of democratic governance within co-ops. Using modern empirical methods applied to large …

This paper studies whether skilled migrants contribute to the host country's 'productive efficiency' (Farrell, 1957 … find that skilled migrants contribute positively to a country's productive efficiency with the exception of the finance …

Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across …

evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … taking differences along the conditional productivity distribution and firms with extreme values, or outliers, into account …) indicate that the productivity pecking order found in numerous studies using data for firms from manufacturing industries …

strong cross-firm association of FDI wage premia with similar differentials in productivity …

We implement a method to estimate the direct effects of foreign-ownership on foreign firms' productivity and the … in empirical studies examining a direct causal effect of foreign ownership on firm productivity, namely that of no … indirect effects (or spillovers) from the presence of foreign-owned firms on other foreign and domestic firms' productivity in …