productivity growth, while the older literature focused on average productivity improvements ("learning"). We use comprehensive … role in aggregate productivity gains immediately following the start of India's trade reforms in 1991. However, aggregate … productivity gains during the overall 20-year period from 1985 to 2004 were driven largely by improvements in average productivity …

technologies, leading to higher productivity. We propose a model of endogenous selection and innovation in heterogeneous firms that …

host-countries has been almost exclusively focused on issues of productivity, growth and wages. We argue that this leaves …

We revisit the relationship between foreign investment and productivity of acquired firms. First, we construct a panel … acquisitions after controlling for country and sector trends. The productivity of foreign acquired affiliates increases modestly …

quarter of their annual pre-liberalization salary. The increase in the growth rate of labor productivity in the aftermath of …

We develop a framework in which the host country productivity has a positive effect on the intensive margin (the size …-country productivity has a negative effect on the extensive margin. An increase in the host-country corporate tax rate reduces the actual …

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. We provide a comprehensive analysis of the … relationship between financial openness and total factor productivity (TFP) growth using an extensive dataset that includes various …

total factor productivity and that they impact the degree of Ramp;D spillovers …

largely reflect differences in countries' total factor productivity. We argue that this view has powerful implications for … patterns of capital flows: everything else equal, countries with faster productivity growth should invest more, and attract …