and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the … change from 1995-1997 to 1998-2000. However, the distance to the frontier is orders of magnitude greater in Russia than in … distance of domestic firms to the frontier grew (in all parts of the distribution) from 1992-1994 to 1995-1997 and did not …

advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent … privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … efficiency frontier is much larger than that of the Czech firms and continued to grow for most firms beyond 1997 while remaining …

, we suggest that the convergence based on the productivity, can be assisted by a reinforcement of supply-side measures …

, we suggest that the convergence based on the productivity, can be assisted by a reinforcement of supply-side measures …

is increasing in its productivity, with the most productive multinationals choosing not to rely on a foreign partner at …

how firm-specific characteristics affect each decision. We find that total factor productivity is a significant …

-market participation having generally larger positive effects on productivity and negative effects on unit labor costs. All four channels …, the marginal productivity gains of foreign-ownership are greatly reduced when the firm is already an exporter. Breaking …

is increasing in its productivity, with the most productive multinationals choosing not to rely on a foreign partner at …

reallocation through an investigation of the productivity-profitability-growth relations at the firm level. Exploiting large panels … profitability differentials, whereas the relationships of corporate growth with either productivity or profitability appear much …

Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector …