The study aims at describing productivity growth in the manufacturing sector for a selected panel of five European … countries using firm-level data. The paper explores the empirical regularities of firm productivity distribution across … countries. In particular, we assess the degree of persistence of firm relative productivity and consider its effect on aggregate …

rates. Improving on previous investigations on the topic, it combines a dynamic panel analysis of the effects of different …

-by-importing. -- Imports ; exports ; productivity ; enterprise panel data ; Germany … document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the …This paper uses a newly available comprehensive panel data set for manufacturing enterprises from 2001 to 2005 to …

-by-importing. -- Imports ; exports ; productivity ; enterprise panel data ; Germany … document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the …This paper uses a newly available comprehensive panel data set for manufacturing enterprises from 2001 to 2005 to …