-parametric test for first order stochastic dominance it is shown that, in line with this hypothesis, the productivity distribution of …, therefore, seems to be useful to guide empirical work on the relation between exports, R&D and productivity for services firms …

separately. The results showed a diametrically opposing impact of productivity and profitability on the takeover likelihood. This …

for first order stochastic dominance it is shown that, in line with this hypothesis, the productivity distribution of … guide empirical work on the relation between exports, R&D and productivity. …

firms always have a higher market share, there is no monotonic relationship between firms' productivity level and their … effect. Therefore, the incentive to add more products weakens as productivity rises. This leads to Lemma 3 in Feenstra and Ma …

?intensive firms. Comparing the impacts on productivity and wage costs shows that ICT raise the profitability of training high …

number of national firm level studies on the innovation-productivity link have been conducted using new internationally …, innovation output and productivity, we find to a very large extent a common cross-country story for knowledge intensive …

deepening and innovation for productivity. We employ a model that takes into account that innovation and ICT use may be … productivity appears to be of the same order of magnitude in the two countries. However, the direct impacts of innovation on multi …-factor productivity seems to be more robust for Germany than for the Netherlands. …

The missing effect of investments of firms in information and communication technologies on productivity is studied by …) has a stronger effect on the quality of services than on the productivity of the IT-using firm. IT investment seems to be … especially the most recent generation of IT as indicated by the number of PCs used is the source of productivity growth whereas …

Productivity growth has been slow in many continental European countries over the last few decades, especially in … product market competition experience higher rates of productivity growth. We also find weak evidence for the notion that in … Germany?s bank-based system of internal control, ownership concentration is harmful for productivity growth. …

governance and market discipline on productivity growth. We find that firms under concentrated ownership tend to show … significantly higher productivity growth. Financial pressure from creditors influences productivity growth positively, particularly … for firms in financial distress. Regarding market discipline, productivity grows faster when competition on product …