In this paper we explore the extent to which firms experience productivity spillovers from clustering using a rich data …-selection and endogenous location choice of firms in an estimation of firm level productivity. Controlling for competition effects … and distinguishing between urbanization and localization economies, we find strong evidence for productivity spillovers …

evidence for sequential sorting into different export-modes according to firm-productivity: i) only the most productive firms …

In this paper, we examine the effect of transportation infrastructure on the productivity of manufacturing plants. In … manufacturing plant productivity in non-metropolitan counties. The recent introduction of the Korea Train eXpress(KTX) high … 4.6 percent in the productivity of manufacturing plants due to the introduction of the high-speed train. Our analysis …

, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this …

This paper explores the productivity impact of trade, product market and financial market policies over the last decade … investigating the link between these policies and productivity growth depending on how far incumbents are relative to the … the potential channels through which productivity is affected by reform. The key conclusion that can be derived from the …

This paper examines how import penetration affects firms' productivity growth taking into account the heterogeneity in … product market regulation measures depending on firms' positions along the global distribution of productivity levels. The … heterogeneous effects of international competition and domestic product market regulation on firm-level productivity growth are …

This paper investigates firm-level dynamics of labour productivity in China's manufacturing sector over the 1998 …-2007. Underlying the aggregate evidence of dramatic growth of labour productivity, one observes a large, even if shrinking, intra … effect of the characteristics of firms according to the ownership and governance structure upon the productivity …

, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this …

in terms of value added, productivity, profits, product quality, and revenue in the different export destinations. We … remarkable increases in productivity. …