This study explores both the individual impact of geographical diversification and its effect combined with product … diversification on small and medium-sized enterprises' (SMEs) performance. Unlike most prior studies, this study distinguishes between … related and unrelated product diversification. The research setting is a sample of manufacturing SMEs (1994-2014). By using …

This paper studies the effect of FDI firms' financial advantages on firm productivity in host countries and examines … cutoff productivity than local firms, especially in financially vulnerable sectors. The same mechanism will also lower the … average productivity of FDI firms especially in financially vulnerable sectors, although FDI firms on average are still more …

Using a unique German firm-level data set, we provide empirical evidence for a productivity sorting along two …

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 …

We use a firm-level dataset for Chinese manufacturing, to estimate productivity spillovers from foreign direct …

This paper assesses the effect on total factor productivity (TFP) of a change in the status of a firm from domestic … become exporters experience higher TFP, between 7.8% and 8.8%, with respect to domestic producers. Productivity gains were …

total factor productivity, we also find that highly productive firms self-select into the export market. The implication for …

Using micro-data for Dutch firms, we argue that the productivity spillovers from importing technology intensive … always positively associated with firm-level productivity …