substantial productivity growth, but some evidence of trade discipline on the price-cost margins. A markup premium is however …

-year-level productivity and markup estimates. We find that importing intermediate inputs is associated with large markup premium, while the …

Measures of institutional quality are strong predictors of cross-country differences in income and productivity. The …

We demonstrate the power of recently redeveloped productivity micro-data to produce a range of meaningful competition … groups. Estimating the relationship between competition and productivity within these groups provides some suggestive results …-to-exit based on productivity. Overall, the limited evidence we find for a direct relationship between competition and productivity …

International trade has been stated as one of the most important mean of improving firms' productivity, being the … contribute to local firm's productivity performance by incorporating better inputs in their production processes. This paper … of manufacturing formal firms in Ecuador, and, the causal relationship between the import decision and firm productivity …

financial variables of Lithuanian firms. We focus in particular on the issues related to productivity, firm birth and death and … literature: trade participation and firm productivity are strongly positively linked, the 2008 recession has had a cleansing …