We explore how changes in ownership and managerial control affect the productivity and profitability of producers … gains in capacity utilization that raised both their productivity and profitability levels, consistent with acquiring owner … century, we find a more nuanced picture than the straightforward "higher productivity buys lower productivity" story commonly …

A positive productivity shock in the host country tends typically to increase the volume of the desired FDI flows to … the host country, through the standard marginal profitability effect. But, at the same time, such a shock may lower the … likelihood of making any new FDI flows by the source country, through a total profitability effect, derived from the a general …

) productivity growth, as more productive businesses displace less productive ones. However, this research has been limited by the … productivity measures. If prices reflect idiosyncratic demand or market power shifts, high "productivity" businesses may not be … selection and productivity growth using data from industries where we observe producer-level quantities and prices separately …

negative union effects on profitability, but growth, productivity and the capital-labor ratio appear to be little affected by …This paper examines the impact of unionization on profit- ability, growth and productivity using time series data on … analysis is that information about union wage and productivity effects is not sufficient to permit prediction of the sign (or …

considerations, whereas the second is governed by marginal profitability considerations. A positive productivity shock in the host … decisions are two-fold: whether to export FDI and, if so, how much. The first decision is governed by total profitability … productivity conditions). Empirical literature on the determinants of FDI flows which uses the Tobit procedure aims at a correction …

The purpose of this paper is to treat scale economies, profit-maximizing markups, economic profitability, capacity … utilization and productivity growth within an integrated structural model, and to assess their interactions empirically using … annual two-digit U.S. manufacturing data. Attention is focused on error biases in measuring productivity using traditional …

In the U.S., some sectoral evidence suggests that growth is driven mainly by productivity enhancing reallocation. In … developing countries, an open question is whether reallocation is productivity enhancing. Using a unique plant-level longitudinal … dataset for Colombia for the period 1982-1998 we examine the interaction between market allocation, productivity and …

Management has a large effect on the productivity of large firms. But does management matter in micro and small firms … Bangladesh, Chile, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria and Sri Lanka. We show that variation in business practices explains as much of … the variation in outcomes – sales, profits and labor productivity and TFP – in microenterprises as in larger enterprises …

A vast firm productivity literature finds that otherwise similar firms differ widely in their productivity and that …,000 agricultural plots across four countries in Africa to study the size, source, and persistence of productivity dispersion among … smallholder farmers. Applying standard regression-based approaches to measuring productivity residuals, we find much larger …