This paper studies the relationship between export activities and firm-level productivity. Unique matching of German … a rise in firm-level productivity. That is, the annual average growth rate of an exporting firm's productivity is … foreign markets boosts firm-level productivity. …

This paper studies the relationship between export activities and firm-level productivity. Unique matching of German … a rise in firm-level productivity. That is, the annual average growth rate of an exporting firm's productivity is … foreign markets boosts firm-level productivity. …

Recent dynamic models of firm entry and exit emphasise the relationship between a firm's productivity and the decision … to enter or exit. If firm turnover is driven by productivity differentials then the reallocation of resources across … firms at the micro level can have important implications for aggregate or industry-level productivity change. Using …

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 …

In the paper, productivity convergence is analyzed with a broad panel of industry sector data for the United States and … had a significant effect on German sectoral productivity growth in the sixties and seventies. Some part of the catching …-up is due to capital-deepening, but most of it is total factor productivity convergence, i.e. endogenous growth models …

values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility …

Productivity growth in many advanced economies has decelerated in the last decades. There is increasing evidence that … the misallocation of production function has contributed to the weakness in productivity. Factors behind this … misallocation of production factors on productivity and assess their role for the weakness in productivity growth in Germany …

In this paper we investigate the relationship between productivity growth and firm dynamics using firm-level data … between 1992 and 2006. Theories emphasising firm-level heterogeneity show that industry-level productivity may not only … was the main factor behind industry-level productivity growth in Hungary in this period, but creative destruction also …

total factor productivity and by the capital stock per capita. These variables suffice to calculate welfare changes within a … the degree of market competition. It applies to open economies as well, if total factor productivity is constructed using … productivity be constructed with prices and quantities as perceived by consumers, not firms. Thus, factor shares need to be …

The authors provide an extensive review of the rapidly expanding research on productivity, both at the macro and micro …, especially the United States, where such work sheds important light on particular aspects of productivity growth. The authors …