We analyze the relationship between Antidumping (AD) Protection and the productivity ofEU domestic firms in import … measured productivity for domestic firms. Total Factor Productivity(TFP) of protected firms increases by 2% in the short …

integrated EU countries leadto large productivity gains? To answer these questions, we extend and calibrate the Melitz … andOttaviano (2007) model on productivity and trade data for European economies in 2000, and simulatecounterfactual trade … that, in the French case, international tradehas a sizeable impact on aggregate productivity, but smaller than that of …

This paper deals with endogenous determination of effort as a source of productivity growth. …

This paper revisits the issue of the productivity performance of pre-World War I Britain’s railway system with an … it stabilized at about 1.1%. An analysis of company-level productivity rejects the claims that there was a regulation …-induced revival of productivity performance in the railway sector after 1900 but, on the other hand, it supports the claim that there …

trends. Comparing productivity levels across countries is notoriously tricky, but one attractive approach has been to deflate …