as the impact of these activities on firm-level productivity. The evidence gathered suggests that countries in the South …-owned firms as the most innovative of the region. The evidence also suggests a positive impact of innovation on productivity …

Over the past decades, East Asia and Pacific's productivity has been gradually catching up with the frontier (the … United States), with China leading the pack. Productivity growth has been driven by sustained within-sector productivity … growth. Reallocation of labor to sectors with higher productivity, such as industry and services, also contributed to …

between servicification and productivity in Turkey. Although servicification has the potential to boost firm performance, the … particularly less productive. Regulatory restrictions in services are explored as an explanatory factor. Productivity gaps appear …

urban productivity in Latin American cities. The use of night-time lights satellite imagery and high-resolution population … areas generates opposite effects on urban productivity. On the one hand, smaller governments tend to be more responsive and … efficient, which increases productivity. But, on the other hand, multiple local governments face coordination costs that reduce …

establishment productivity and markups. The elimination of local barriers that were inconsistent with national legislation was the …. The paper finds that the elimination of subnational barriers to entry boosted the (revenue) productivity of establishments … raise the establishments' markups, which, if anything, declined, suggesting that physical productivity improved. The paper …

-side channel: capital, labor, and productivity, with the last estimated using the stochastic frontier approach. By controlling for …