financial variables of Lithuanian firms. We focus in particular on the issues related to productivity, firm birth and death and … literature: trade participation and firm productivity are strongly positively linked, the 2008 recession has had a cleansing …

This paper studies how asymmetric information over inputs affects workers' response to incentives and self-selection at … input quality and worker type. Firm profits increase differentially from high productivity workers, but absenteeism and … and managers shape the response to incentives and self-selection at the workplace. …

trading. Such measures can reduce emissions cost-effectively and create incentives for technological development. There is … been too low to create the incentives necessary to stimulate technological development. This paper empirically analyzes how … the Swedish carbon dioxide tax and the EU ETS have affected productivity development in the Swedish pulp and paper …

' productivity through more efficient use of capital and labor. Acquirers reduce capital expenditures, wages, and employment in … industries with better investment opportunities. Moreover, changes in productivity help explain the merging firms' announcement … returns. The combined announcement returns are driven by improvements in target's productivity. Targets with greater …

productivity (TFP) growth in China. Our primary goal is to test Hicks' induced innovation hypothesis by examining whether technical …

unobserved productivity factor on which firms condition the input demand of the observed inputs. Our model of unobserved …

We demonstrate the power of recently redeveloped productivity micro-data to produce a range of meaningful competition … groups. Estimating the relationship between competition and productivity within these groups provides some suggestive results …-to-exit based on productivity. Overall, the limited evidence we find for a direct relationship between competition and productivity …

This paper looks at the question of how import activities and productivity are related. Using detailed production and … evidence of both self-selection into importing and learning-by-importing, but not all imports seem to matter for productivity … start importing machinery and equipment also experience an increase in productivity, while the same does not occur when …

industry (2007-2014) to investigate the impacts of exporting on the productivity trajectory and intensity of factors. The … and the use of comparative advantages so that firms that start exporting have an immediate productivity growth of around 5 … growth (reduction) in productivity (intensity of capital) is, approximately, 12% (15%). Among the sources of heterogeneities …