, profitability, investment and growth, based on China's manufacturing firm-level dataset over the period 1998 - 2007. First, we find …, the profitability-growth relationship is mediated via investment. Firm's contemporaneous and lagged profitabilities … that productivity variations, rather than relative levels, are the dominant productivity-related determinant of firm growth …

, profitability, investment and growth, based on China's manufacturing firm-level dataset over the period 1998-2007. First, we find …, the profitability-growth relationship is mediated via investment. Firm's contemporaneous and lagged profitabilities … that productivity variations, rather than relative levels, are the dominant productivity-related determinant of firm growth …

, profitability, investment and growth, based on China's manufacturing firm-level dataset over the period 1998-2007. First, we find …, the profitability-growth relationship is mediated via investment. Firm's contemporaneous and lagged profitabilities … that productivity variations, rather than relative levels, are the dominant productivity-related determinant of firm growth …

, production and investment decisions are controlled by overriding profitability objectives and where the rate of interest plays a …

manufacturing industries of France, Germany, UK and USA. We first disentangle the contribution to industry-level productivity growth … extent firm growth rates are shaped by relative productivity levels in deviation from industry average and by the over time … productivity-related determinant of relative growth rates. …

This paper investigates the impact of ownership type on the entire growth rate distributional mass of Chinese firms …-shift analysis. We first find a Chinese growth puzzle, i.e., a deviation from the stylized fact of the variance-scaling relationship … tails of the growth rate distributions. Our results also indicate that barriers of becoming a high growth firm, such as …