the emphasis in industrial policy on productivity growth and the potential gains that could be made by facilitating … extent to which it leads to productivity-enhancing effects. We focus on two channels, a competition and a spillover channel … competition effects associated with clustering for formal and manufacturing firms. We find some evidence of productivity …

-owned export firms impacts on the productivity of domestic firms. We consider two channels: first, the extent to which export …-induced improvements in the legal and institutional framework has led to productivity improvements for non-exporting firms, and second the … extent to which horizontal spillovers from foreign-owned firm's impact on the productivity of domestic firms. We find that …

The paper investigates the determinants of productivity growth in China. It also analyses the sustainability of the … country's industrial growth by estimating sectoral productivity, accounting for energy usage and emission since the start of … the market-oriented reforms in the late 1970s. The growth accounting analysis indicates that productivity is the most …

, firm-level output prices and physical productivity. We find a negative and statistically significant relationship between … given product in a location and the physical productivity of firms in the same location producing that product. These … significant relationship between agglomeration and firm-level output prices and productivity. -- industry agglomeration …

In this paper, we explore the link between firm productivity and exporting using three firm level datasets of 1323 … markets, and whether exporters achieve productivity improvements through learning by exporting effects. We then explore the … link between innovation (as a channel linking productivity to exporting) and exporting. The analysis has been conducted on …

This study examines the effects of mining productivity shocks on the formal-informal duality in manufacturing and … productivity and skilled employment within informal and formal firms, and less by the incidence of firms sorting into the formal …