Productivity in Russia has fallen steadily over the past 15 years. This paper explores micro-level data to understand … the contribution of individual firms to aggregate productivity. Overall, firm-level data corroborate the decline in … aggregate productivity and a widening productivity gap against several European countries. They also show that the gap between …

for plant size and productivity, we find that foreign plants are significantly more likely to close than comparable …

with Dixit-Stiglitz endogenous productivity effects from additional varieties. They specify a numerical model, with …

with Dixit-Stiglitz endogenous productivity effects from additional varieties. They specify a numerical model, with …

driver of productivity gains in domestic firms (15:6%), in a way that allows the latter to catch up with foreign-owned firms … causality. Results are robust to placebo tests and to different estimators of Total Factor Productivity. Eventually, we argue … that upcoming limits to the mobility of foreign talents after the Brexit event can hamper the allocation of productive …

We measure the contribution of firm-embedded productivity to cross-country income differences. By firm …-embedded productivity we refer to the components of productivity that differ across firms and that can be transferred internationally, such … face less competition in less-developed coun-tries, suggesting that firm-embedded productivity in those countries is scarce …