The expansion in farm size is an important contributor to agricultural productivity in developed countries, but the … agricultural productivity? We develop a model of heterogeneous farms making cropping choices and investing in productivity … North on farm choices and agricultural productivity. We find that the higher distortions in north Vietnam reduce …

using enterprise data. The GQ project upgraded the quality and width of 5,846 km of roads in India. We use a difference … entry rates and increases in plant productivity. These results are not present for districts located on another major …

aggregate manufacturing productivity on the order of 25% in India and Mexico relative to the U.S … intermediate to India and the U.S. in these respects: the average 40 year old Mexican plant employs twice as many workers as an …

We study the effects of globalization on agricultural productivity across countries. We develop a multi-country general … technologies characterized by factor and input intensity. We evaluate the welfare and productivity gains from reductions in trade …

not with higher productivity or profitability. The evidence suggests that intangible investment is associated with growth … and 'soft' performance objectives, but not with productivity or profitability …

We study the impact of firm level choices of ICT, R&D, exporting and importing on the evolution of productivity and its … "techies". We develop a methodology for estimating firm level productivity that allows us to measure both Hicks-neutral and … from 2009 to 2013. We find that techies and importing of intermediate inputs raise skill-biased productivity, while imports …

at the micro level typically reduces total factor productivity at the macro level. Quantifying these effects is leading …

This paper examines the determinants of productivity in Japanese manufacturing industries, looking particularly at the … impact of product market competition on productivity. Using a newly available panel data on around ten thousand firms in …-cost margin, enhances productivity growth, controlling for a broad range of industrial and firm-specific characteristics. Moreover …

This paper studies the effects of trade liberalization on the evolution of firm productivity. The productivity of each … nominal tariffs on firms' productivity levels is identified. After controlling for the endogeneity of nominal tariffs, the … estimated coefficient for tariffs in the productivity equation turns out to be negative. Second, a measure of tariffs on inputs …

productivity, using the annual plant-level panel data on Korean manufacturing sector during the period of 1990 to 1998. The two key … questions examined are whether exporting improves productivity (learning) and/or whether more productive plants export (self …-sectional correlation between exporting and total factor productivity is accounted for by both selection and learning effects. These results …