estimates of the productivity premium of German firms exporting to the Euro-zone and beyond, controlling for unobserved time … observations, or outliers. The paper shows that estimates of the exporter productivity premium by destination are driven by a small … share of outliers. Using a "clean" sample without outliers the estimated productivity premium of firms that export to the …

This paper provides a new cross-country evaluation of competitiveness, focusing on the linkages between productivity … establish new stylized facts regarding the joint distributions of the firm-level exports performance and productivity in a panel …-exporters. However, this productivity premium is rising with the export experience of firms, with permanent exporters being much more …

first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivity and size of the export market for Germany, a leading …

There is a substantial heterogeneity in productivity when comparing individual firms. However, even when heterogeneity …

This paper serves as another complementary link in a chain of a rather limited number of investigations in the R&D-innovation-productivity … relationship within service industries. Innovation has been found to be a major contributor to productivity growth in manufacturing … evidence that the reported weak rate of productivity growth in knowledge intensive services can be explained by a low …

European industries are under pressure regarding their environmental performance and productivity growth. The current … of firm's competitiveness. This paper studies environmental productivity and its components at a European industrial … results point out that industrial environmental productivity has deteriorated across Europe with best practice change being …

Productivity performance in European countries has been a policy concern for some time. This paper shows that … productivity can be enhanced by product market policies which, by increasing competition and efficiency, facilitate higher rates of … churning, in turn, appears to be positively related to higher total factor productivity at the sector level by facilitating the …