-invested firms grow in size but not in productivity compared with non-invested firms over a four-year horizon. Decomposing foreign … group firms resulting in little effect on productivity or growth but leading to growth in stand-alone firms. Foreign …

expected to generate technology spillovers to indigenous firms in transition economies. This paper will analyse and try to …

abroad (market-driven vs. resource-driven FDI). Second, we highlight the role of productivity growth in the post-entry period ….Our findings suggest that productivity affects the FDI decision considerably whereas expected feedback and learning effects of FDI … on productivity are remarkably lower.We further detect that more market-driven MNEs exhibit a higher productivity than …

total factor productivity, we also find that highly productive firms self-select into the export market. The implication for …

The effect of financing frictions on firm productivity growth is not well understood. Using a model we show that a rise … in financial frictions leads to increased sensitivity of productivity growth to the use of external finance. We test this …

Supplying inputs to foreign affiliates is consistently found to be an important source of productivity gains for … domestic firms. We analyse the impact of border regimes on the existence and size of cross-border indirect productivity effects … neighbours during the period 2000-2010. EU-membership is a necessary condition for positive cross-border indirect productivity …

performance of a panel of 10,650 firms operating in Romania in the period 1995-2001. Controlling for the simultaneity bias in … productivity estimates through semi-parametric techniques, we find that changes in domestic firms' TFP are positively related to …

-level productivity. Controlling for an extensive set of fixed effects as well as potential political-economy drivers of regulation, we … experienced a substantial loss in productivity that was concentrated in the sectors most dependent on external finance and …

participation and productivity at the firm and establishment-level. We test whether recent theories of international trade with … we control for the firm's distance to the international productivity frontier …

paper finds that significant productivity improvements have taken place in the period since 2000. The paper further explores … the important determinants of productivity improvements across a range of different categories. As per the findings of the … paper, some of the important determinants of productivity measured by total factor productivity (TFP) include imports of raw …