Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector …

education. The econometric evidence documents a strong relationship between ICT capital and productivity in both countries, even …

estimation of production functions together with information on prices and quantities to estimate physical productivity, markups …

functions together with detailed product-level information on prices and quantities to estimate physical productivity, markups … based on commonly used measures of revenue productivity. In contrast, we measure sizable efficiency gains using measures … that are not affected by pricing heterogeneity, such as marginal costs and physical productivity. Exploiting exogenous …

their engagement in already existing Indian firms. Most notably, the productivity of the German parents matters only for …

productivity growth, while the older literature focused on average productivity improvements (“learning”). The authors use … important role in aggregate productivity gains immediately following the start of India's trade reforms in 1991. However …, aggregate productivity gains during the overall 20-year period from 1985 to 2004 were driven largely by improvements in average …

or foreign firms are supposed to have frontier technology, hence when they enter a market they are expected to have … affect domestic firms productivity. An interesting result of this chapter is that inter-industry spillovers are found to be …