Studies of firm-level data have shown that there is a huge dispersion of productivity across firms even when industries … productive. The formers’ convergence could therefore constitute an important part of productivity growth at the macroeconomic … which can explain it. Productivity convergence was stronger for labour productivity than for total factor productivity. But …

economy to a low productivity level. These structural characteristics are related not only to cost elements but also to the …

firm-level productivity decreases while the dispersion rises up, firm product scope decreases and sums up to a lower number …

productivity, by altering the makeup of plants that populate the market. An appreciation of the local currency increases the level … structural model that captures the effect of plantlevel productivity and real exchange rate fluctuations on plant entry and exit … decisions in the Canadian agricultural implements industry, and how this, in turn, affects aggregate productivity. The model …

We demonstrate the power of recently redeveloped productivity micro-data to produce a range of meaningful competition … groups. Estimating the relationship between competition and productivity within these groups provides some suggestive results …-to-exit based on productivity. Overall, the limited evidence we find for a direct relationship between competition and productivity …

This paper proposes a dynamic structural model with endogenous productivity to evaluate the impact of R&D on … productivity when firms decide how much to invest; this decision depends on the competitive pressure that they face. Using data … least 0.7 to 2.5 times the actual R&D investment for a firm at the median of the productivity growth and 2 to 4 times for a …

This study analyses empirically the effects of import competition on firm productivity (TFPQ) using administrative firm … positive incentives for firms to invest in productivity improvement, whereas import competition from middle- and low …. Costly investment in productivity appears feasible reaction to such type of competition and we find no evidence for …

This study analyzes empirically the effects of import competition on firm productivity (TFPQ) using administrative firm … positive incentives for firms to invest in productivity improvement, whereas import competition from middle- and low …. Costly investment in productivity appears feasible reaction to such type of competition and we find no evidence for …

Mindestlohn führt vor allem in Ostdeutschland auch im internationalen Vergleich zu einer starken Betroffenheit der Branche vom … Mindestlohn. Die damit einhergehende effektive Kostenbelastung fällt dennoch begrenzt aus. Auf der Basis von Differenz …-von-Differenzen-Schätzungen sowohl im Vergleich zu einer nicht von einem Mindestlohn betroffenen Baunebenbranche als auch auf Basis eines Vergleichs von …