through which major emerging economies (BRICs, i.e., Brazil, Russian Federation, India and China) could catch up with advanced … source countries in terms of total factor productivity (TFP). We find that the importance of these transmission mechanisms …

This paper estimates the costs of EU restraints on trade in textiles and clothing. After explaining the methods used …, we examine the impact of an opening up of EU trade in textiles and clothing, inter alia to those economies where the …

This paper analyzes the horizontal productivity effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) from industrialized and …, and North Africa. We find strong evidence of horizontal productivity spillovers to domestic firms derived from foreign …-firm presence. However, these effects are clearly dependent on domestic firms’ absorptive capacity. The largest productivity effects …

productivity growth between Northern and Southern FDI, irrespective of how the latter is defined. However, we find that employment …

addition to data on supplier credit, equity and other finance sources. Our regressions reveal a female-to-male productivity gap … between gender and productivity is mediated by financial constraints, the gender performance gap disappears. Accordingly …, female business-owners who indicate that funding is not a problem, are associated with higher productivity than males, all …