German and Austrian firm productivity. Unique matching of data from 1994 to 2003 suggests that tarif reductions raise parent … firm productivity significantly. A ten percentage point decrease in tarif rates can lead to total factor productivity gains …

drives low-productivity firms from the small country's home market, replacing them with high-productivity exporters from … abroad. This endogenous policy response creates a selection effect that increases the average productivity of home firms when …

(Smith 1962) and recent theoretical results (Dufwenberg et al. 2008) suggest that competition forces people to behave as if …

In recent decades, many firms offered more discretion to their employees, often increasing the productivity of effort …-sharing, screening opportunities, and competition are important driving forces behind these new forms of work organization. We document … competition substantially fosters the trust strategy, reduces market segmentation, and leads to large welfare gains for both …

Recent literature on multinational firms has stressed the importance of low productivity as a barrier to the cross …

-dependence; for periods of relatively high and volatile inflation not only the size of price changes (intensive margin) but also the … fraction of price adjustment (extensive margin) is important for aggregate inflation dynamics. Moreover, at the business cycle … frequency, variations in the extensive margin explain a large fraction of inflation variability even for moderate inflation …

This paper studies the relationship between export activities and firm-level productivity. Unique matching of German … a rise in firm-level productivity. That is, the annual average growth rate of an exporting firm's productivity is … foreign markets boosts firm-level productivity. …

shown to be robust even when the upstream supplier faces competition in the form of fringe supply. …