In this paper we explore the extent to which firms experience productivity spillovers from clustering using a rich data …-selection and endogenous location choice of firms in an estimation of firm level productivity. Controlling for competition effects … and distinguishing between urbanization and localization economies, we find strong evidence for productivity spillovers …

evidence for sequential sorting into different export-modes according to firm-productivity: i) only the most productive firms …

In this paper, we examine the effect of transportation infrastructure on the productivity of manufacturing plants. In … manufacturing plant productivity in non-metropolitan counties. The recent introduction of the Korea Train eXpress(KTX) high … 4.6 percent in the productivity of manufacturing plants due to the introduction of the high-speed train. Our analysis …

, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this …

This paper builds a theory of the shape of the distribution of total-factor productivity (TFP) across countries. The … data on productivity suggests vast differences across countries, and arguably even has "twin peaks". The theory proposed … here is consistent with vast differences in long-run productivity, and potentially also with a twin-peaks outcome, even …

the productivity gap in a number of services gives bigger gains in aggregate productivity than closing it in agriculture … removal of these distortions on aggregate productivity using the input-output model and find that this could increase … productivity up to 68%, depending on whether the rents from distortions stay in the economy or not. …

Envelopment Analysis analysiert und die Änderungen in der totalen Faktorproduktivität mit Hilfe des Malmquist Productivity Change …This paper analyzes efficiency and total factor productivity (TFP) change of large agricultural enterprises during … the productivity change is measured by the Malmquist Productivity Change Index in the period between 1990 and 1999. On …