This paper examines the role of international openness on the change of firm productivity in Southeastern Europe (SEE … higher learning effects. We find that (i) foreign ownership has helped at restructuring and enhancing productivity of local … firms in four out of six countries, (ii) exporting to advanced markets has a larger impact on productivity growth in four …

-exporting counterparts. They pay higher average wages, consistent with the notion that they have higher labour productivity or utilise more … export growth and success among exporting companies. Successful exporters tend to be larger, with higher productivity growth …

What is the effect of imports on productivity? To answer this question, we estimate a structural model of producers … productivity through expanding variety as well as improved input quality. The model leads to a production function where the total … factor productivity of a firm depends on the share of inputs imported. To estimate this import-augmented production function …

account of the regional heterogeneity computing the productivity dispersion indicator within each sector and regional macro … the productivity heterogeneity across firms, while an opposing impact is detected for the exposure to trade with high …

) heterogeneous firm framework. The focus is on liberalisation-induced productivity and profitability consequences for international … and regional banks in seven European countries during the 1988 to 2003 period. Confirming higher productivity and … between higher international market participation and bank productivity. It also provides evidence for an increase in …

investigate the relation between firms' trading activities (importing, exporting or both) and productivity. We find important self … average productivity premia of exporters. …

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

investigate the relation between firms' trading activities (importing, exporting or both) and productivity. We find important self … correlated within firms, failing to control for the importing activity leads to overstated average productivity premia of …

What is the effect of imports on productivity? To answer this question, we estimate a structural model of producers … productivity through expanding variety as well as improved input quality. The model leads to a production function where the total … factor productivity of a firm depends on the share of inputs imported. To estimate this import-augmented production function …