-2010, we show that a higher share of politically connected supervisory board members leads to lower productivity. …

Consisting of teams working with firm level data, the International Study Group on Exports and Productivity has used … relationship between exports and productivity. The overall results are in line with the big picture that is by now familiar from … for, and these exporter productivity premia tend to increase with the share of exports in total sales; there is strong …

hiring and firing of workers, labour reallocation and productivity growth. It also reviews how workers affected by labour … labour market flows and these flows, in turn, have significant impacts on productivity growth. At the same time, the evidence …

, although we do not find any effect on profitability of domestic banks. -- Banking ; Privatization ; Ownership ; Performance …

We investigate the effect of international differences in corporate taxation on the realization of productivity gains … thus mitigate the resulting productivity improvement. Using firm-level data on inputs and outputs of production as well as … of two merging firms reduces the subsequent total factor productivity gain by 4.5%. This effect is less pronounced when …