This paper investigates the sources of total factor productivity growth in the German manufacturing sector, 1981 …-1998. Decomposition formulae for aggregate productivity growth are used to identify the effects of structural change and entry-exit on … aggregate productivity growth. Documented is a substantial rise of productivity growth after the German reunification. The bulk …

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 …

This paper tests some of the predictions of recent advances in trade theory that have …

of the heterogeneous firm models from the new new trade theory is that exporters are more productive than non …-exporters. However, many firms from the lower end of the productivity distribution are exporters. Germany is a case in point. A recent … study reports that these low-productivity exporters are not marginal exporters defined according to the share of exports in …

estimation based on stochastic non-smooth envelopment of data (StoNED) allows for productivity estimation with few microeconomic …While productivity growth in electricity generation is associated with multiple positive effects from an economic and … environmental perspective, measuring it is challenging. This paper proposes a framework to estimate and decompose productivity …

negative impact of credit constraints on both the number of goods exported and the number of export destination countries that …