the effects of temperature on firm-level total factor productivity (TFP), factor inputs, and output. We detect an inverted …

-level risk-taking in pursuing productivity-enhancing activities including using and developing new knowledge. Individual … model incorporating England's and China's distinct pre-modern risk-sharing institutions. The model predicts a transition in … England and not China even with equal levels of risk sharing. Under the clan-based Chinese institution, the relatively risk …

of China. In this paper we estimate the effect of deep reform (the right to hire and fire labour, buy and sell capital … and operate on international markets) on the productivity dynamics of enterprises. Using a unique balanced panel of 681 … show that exposure to deep reform have lead to higher productivity realisations while remaining under state ownership. …

China has achieved impressive growth over the last three decades. However, there has been debate over the sources of … quantifying their contributions to growth. In this paper, we develop a three-sector dynamic model to quantify the sources of China … continues to absorb more than half of all fixed investment. If capital had been allocated efficiently, China could have achieved …

further use the Olley-Pakes methodology to estimate total factor productivity (TFP) and show that TFP has increased in most …

specific institutional setting: The North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA). We compare plants' productivity growth and … the more significant vehicle for productivity enhancing effects of trade openness. Investment in technology is, by far …, most strongly correlated with plant productivity. Like productivity, job turnover at firm level is strongly influenced by …

productivity growth. However, while there is a vast empirical literature analyzing the impact of financial openness on output … growth, far less attention has been paid to its effects on productivity growth. This paper provides a comprehensive analysis … of the relationship between financial openness and total factor productivity (TFP) growth using an extensive dataset that …

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 …

This paper argues that international migration of high-skilled workers triggers productivity effects at the macro level … capita, total factor productivity, and wages of skilled workers between pairs of source and destination countries. These …

, education and demographic characteristics affects the productivity of firms in Denmark. Implementing a structural estimation of … firm's value added. Conversely, diversity in ethnicity and demographics induces negative effects on firm productivity …