productivity growth than other firms. Moreover, automation improves the efficiency of all stages of the production process by …

generating endogenous changes in local productivity. In this paper, we document and quantify the importance of this channel by … delays in the construction of highways, we empirically show that productivity grows in places with better transportation … total factor productivity. Then, by calibrating our model on census data between 1998 and 2018, we find that new highways …

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 …

complexity and productivity which dominates the already known correlation between vertical integration and productivity. Results … ; Financial Development ; Property Rights ; Vertical Integration ; Corporate Ownership ; Organization of Production ; Productivity …

While many studies explain the correlation between firm-level productivity and export status entirely by better firms … provinces with weaker institutions. The same type of firms also enjoy the largest productivity gains immediately following …

This paper uses the data envelopment analysis (DEA) based Malmquist productivity index to estimate total factor … productivity growth (TFPG), technical change, and efficiency change for a panel of firms during the period 1991 to 2001 in 26 … Indian manufacturing industries. The paper then analyses the factors explaining productivity growth, technical change and …

Technology (PATCA II) implemented in the Dominican Republic. The program aimed to increase the agricultural productivity and …