The paper analyses productivity spillovers from foreign MNEs on domestic manufacturing firms. Using a database on …

a recession and the slow pace of subsequent recovery. These results are obtained in an environment that embeds Jovanovic …'s (1982) model of learning in a setting where each firm gradually learns about its own productivity, and each occasionally …

in export mix and by firm size. In general, export mix changes are associated with improvements on productivity, although … export mix are more important for firm growth in large firms, but not in terms of productivity. In contrast, SMEs can have a … higher potential for productivity improvement through export product churning but this does not translate necessarily in …

changes in the contribution of capital productivity, capital intensity and labour participation to the growth rate of output …, decomposition to assess both the contribution of both capital productivity and capital intensity to total factor productivity (TFP …, rather than capital productivity or labour participation, has been the main growth contributor. But this does not mean that …

International trade has been stated as one of the most important mean of improving firms' productivity, being the … contribute to local firm's productivity performance by incorporating better inputs in their production processes. This paper … of manufacturing formal firms in Ecuador, and, the causal relationship between the import decision and firm productivity …