and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … level surveys performed by the Statistical Offices. Our micro-econometric analysis confirms previous findings of concave age-productivity … profiles, which are consistent with human capital theory, and adds a new finding of a rather negative effect of age on firms …

. We cover the institution's history, implementation, and the best available evidence on its economic impacts. We argue …

This paper documents for the first time the relationship between profitability and three types of international trade … statistically significant and economically large effects of trade activities on profits. This demonstrates that any productivity …

We analyze an oligopolistic market where a domestic and a foreign firm are engaged in a takeover battle for a domestic … of government. With an unbiased competition agency we find that the foreign takeover is more likely to occur the higher …

understand the link between institutions and an economy's productivity distribution …

improve the business conditions in one country have negative productivity and welfare effects on the trading partner. Second …

We develop a theory of a firm in an environment with incomplete contracts. The firm's headquarter decides on the …

(or negative) effects of schooling on productivity that have been recently reported (i) in the micro literature on …