or sector, it is their productivity advantage on the local firm to determine the positive effect on domestic productivity … significant and robust Veblen-Gerschenkrion effect. The initial total factor productivity advantage of MNEs on local firm acts as … a stimulus for productivity growth of local firms in the same region. …

percent for total factor productivity. Overall, the distortions explain about 67 percent of the variation in income per worker …

provide evidence of the causal impact of this policy on firms' input choices and on total factor productivity on Italian … the productivity obtained from estimating the production function, does not provide valid inference. We rely instead on an … innovative structural approach. We find that the policy has a small negative effect on productivity that is heterogeneous across …

productivity heterogeneity. The model brings theory and data closer along a key dimension: it generates positively related prices …

We characterize the dispersion of firm-level productivity and demand shocks over the business cycle using Swedish … than productivity dispersion in recessions. Productivity shocks pass through incompletely to prices and have limited effect … and see" channel. Productivity dispersion does not generate "wait and see" effects, but affects output negatively by …

productivity gains for domestic firms. The size of FDI spillovers is economically important, accounting for about 14% of … productivity growth in U.S. firms between 1987 and 1996. In addition, there is some evidence for imports-related spillovers, but it …

encompassing unions form. It is shown that a production function satisfying decreasing marginal productivity leads to the formation …