to influence productivity. To this end we estimate plant-level production functions augmented by regional characteristics …

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 …

We compute aggregate productivity of three categories of regions, classified by level of urbanization in the … Netherlands, from firm-specific total factor productivity (TFP) measures. TFP measures are estimated by a semi … over the period 1997-2006. We analyse the productivity differentials across urbanization categories by decomposing them …

externalities (mainly specialisation and diversity externalities) on total factor productivity dynamics. We also analyse the …

The paper analyses the causal effect of capital subsidies on firms' efficiency and productivity by exploiting the … evolves over time, enabling to decompose productivity changes into the change in technical efficiency (i.e., measuring the …

productivity differences among regions within a regression framework in general and the impact of their spillovers on regional … total factor productivity in particular. The focus is laid on interregional spillovers between the Western and Eastern EU … conventional reservoirs of knowledge - patent stocks - falls. Vienna appears to be the largest contributor to the productivity …