This paper examines productivity, export-intensity and technological differences between foreign and local firms in … relationship between labour productivity and export intensity, and technological intensity was stronger in foreign firms than in …

how attributes of MNEs and non-MNEs differ, and how these differences affect the productivity and export intensity. It …

There is a large literature on innovation contribution to productivity for EU countries including CEE states. At the …, especially among small firms. Additionally, we allow dynamic two-direction relationship between productivity and innovation input …’s R&D expenditures, innovations and productivity. The results show that government financial support has positive effect …

This paper investigates whether domestic firms’ productivity is an increasing function of imports from the most … knowledge intensive economies in the world, i.e. the G7 countries. Using Swedish firm-level data, we confirm an instantaneous … causality going from imports to productivity. We also show that productivity is increasing in the G7-fraction of total imports …

incentives and the world distribution of income. An endogenous product cycle arises in equilibrium, in which innovative countries …

Offshoring is generally believed to be productivity-enhancing and this belief is underpinned by economic theory. This … productivity. Estimating the impact of materials and business services offshoring on productivity growth with industry-level data … results show that there is no productivity effect of materials offshoring, while business services offshoring leads to …

productivity. We do so by developing a quantitative model with heterogeneous firms and international trade where firms can invest … cover the fixed costs of sourcing foreign inputs, which in turn also has a benign impact on measured productivity. Using …&D investment play a key role in explaining firm-level productivity growth. Moreover, the estimated returns to R&D are significantly …