different banks as being best or worst performers. Our main conclusion is that efficiency studies in general and bank efficiency …

. Globalization is shown to induce heterogeneous responses across firms in terms of scope and productivity, some of which are …

This paper examines the total factor productivity performance (TFP) of the Philippines in the 1990s in order to provide … a picture of the extent of the productivity concern that needs to be addressed in the Medium-Term National Action Agenda … for Productivity, 2000-2004. The findings show that while the average TFP growth of the country has improved in the 1990s …

German and Austrian firm productivity. Unique matching of data from 1994 to 2003 suggests that tarif reductions raise parent … firm productivity significantly. A ten percentage point decrease in tarif rates can lead to total factor productivity gains …

This study examines the productivity growth of the nationwide banks of China over the ten years to 2006. Using a … bootstrap method for the Malmquist index estimates of productivity growth are constructed with appropriate confidence intervals … for the robustness of the results by examining alternative sets of outputs. The productivity growth of the state …

The recent trade and productivity literature shows that trade liberalization can lead to productivity gains through … paper, an attempt is made to examine the impact of trade liberalization on firm productivity in the Philippines. The country … evidence in support of the hypothesis that trade liberalization leads to productivity gains and conversely, protection leads to …

Recent evidence suggests that despite opening up a country for trade, the productivity gap between developed and … liberalization increases economic performance, that is average productivity and technology adoption, in both countries but that the … productivity gap widens. Simulations show that the welfare gap widens too. Opening up without sufficient access to external funding …

The paper studies the impact of trade liberalization on competition and productivity. Competition is the main channel …

drives low-productivity firms from the small country's home market, replacing them with high-productivity exporters from … abroad. This endogenous policy response creates a selection effect that increases the average productivity of home firms when …