The present paper analyses whether and how the affiliation of a firm to a business group affects its productivity … Bureau van Dijk's MARKUS database and from the Cost Structure Panel we assess differences in productivity (1) between … groups, region, sector and size of firms, it is shown that group members have a productivity premium between 6 and 28 …

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

Using data from a survey conducted by the World Bank in China, this paper shows that foreign ownership enhances firm … productivity. We also find that only equity ownership from foreign firms can have such a positive impact, but not ownership from … channels through which foreign ownership exerts a positive impact on firm productivity …