growth - the few that exists show that there is a positive relationship between debt and future productivity growth … productivity; ii) the strength of this association declines in employment of the firm; iii) there is diminishing returns to … leverage in terms of its impact on productivity but we don't see a threshold beyond which the returns drop; iv) aggregate …

This study analyses empirically the effects of import competition on firm productivity (TFPQ) using administrative firm … positive incentives for firms to invest in productivity improvement, whereas import competition from middle- and low …. Costly investment in productivity appears feasible reaction to such type of competition and we find no evidence for …

This study analyzes empirically the effects of import competition on firm productivity (TFPQ) using administrative firm … positive incentives for firms to invest in productivity improvement, whereas import competition from middle- and low …. Costly investment in productivity appears feasible reaction to such type of competition and we find no evidence for …

We study the impact of broadband availability on firms’ total factor productivity (TFP) using German firm-level data … between 2010 and 2015. We adopt a control function approach to causally identify and separately estimate productivity for 46 … firms’ productivity in manufacturing, it significantly increases TFP in most service sectors. Yet, the size of the effect is …

This paper assesses sources of productivity spillovers in China's electric and electronic manufacturing industry using … important reliance on technology. In particular, the paper focuses on the role of other firms' productivity as well as … productivity shifters in affecting own firm-level total factor productivity. In addition, this paper examines the possible …

The manufacturing sector is an important source of productivity growth and exports. Manufacturing firms are generally … known about the productivity performance of the sector and its drivers in South Africa. The recent availability of firm …-level tax administration data has made it possible to measure and analyse the productivity of manufacturing firms in South …

Productivity growth in Italy has been persistently anemic and has lagged that of the euro area over the period 1999 … long-term impact of persistent corporate-debt accumulation on the productivity growth of Italian firms and investigates … whether total factor productivity growthvaries with the level of corporate indebtedness. We employ a novel estimation …

The factor X in the RPI-X regulation aims to adjust price or revenue allowances to changes in total factor productivity …

This paper explore the role of institutions to enhance the productivity growth across countries using a two stage … Double Bootstrap Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The productivity growth is calculated on the basis of Malmquist … productivity index. It also explores the sources of productivity growth and the influence of different types of institutions …

In this paper, we investigate the impact of rising temperatures on firm productivity using longitudinal firm … temperature. We begin by estimating firms' total factor productivity (TFP) using control-function techniques. We then apply … multiple-way fixed-effects regressions to assess how higher temperature anomalies affect firm productivity - measured via TFP …