thesis is the transition of the manufacturing industry in the federal states of Berlin and Brandenburg. After reunification … on productivity growth, and additionally export behavior has to be persistent over time. Both conditions are empirically …

and analyzing statistical data on productivity trends and technological change in the energy-intensive manufacturing … also examine the impact of alternative model specifications on estimates of productivity growth and technological change …. malleable-- in contributing to productivity growth and technological change. The project has already produced a data resource on …

This paper examines the causal relationship between exporting and productivity using a ten years long plant-level panel … data set from an annual census of Ethiopian manufacturing, rarely available in the sub-Saharan Africa. We exploited its … length to trace the trajectory of TFP and other productivity measures of groups of firms classified by their export history …

while there was an increase in the productivity of factor inputs during the 1990s, most of the growth in value added is …

adisaggregated approach, testing the relationship not only at the aggregate level, but alsofor the manufacturing and service sectors … decreasing returns to scale, the manufacturing sector exhibits increasing returns toscale while the service sector appears to … contribution tothe on-going sectoral productivity and policy debates in the UK, emphasising the role offinance in this process. The …

We build up from the plant level an “aggregate(d)” Solow residual by estimating every U.S. manufacturing plant …) definition of aggregate productivity growth, which aggregates plant-level changes to changes in aggregate final demand in the … reallocations and plant-level technical efficiency changes while allowing in the estimation for 459 different production …

This paper examines the issue of decoupling economic growth and pollution through growth driven by productivity … productivity growth in one region in that region and a neighbour linked through trade in goods and services and in the factor of … production that is targeted with the productivity improvement (here through interregional migration of labour). The key finding …

between infrastructure and private productivity. The second subject is the determinants of regional infrastructure investment … infrastructure to private production; the essays three to five study besides the productivity effects also the determinants of …

rigidity. The third essay analyses how different unionisation structures affect firm productivity and firm performance in a … among heterogeneous producers and increases average productivity and profit levels, firm-level bargaining allows less … productive entrants to remain in the market. The positive effect of centralised bargaining on average productivity can, however …