In China's steel industry, hot issues such as "merger and reorganization" and "zombie firms" are closely tied to firm …. Intelligent manufacturing, as an advanced technology with growing popularity in China’s steel sector, is found to be able to … increase the probability of firm survival. Using total factor productivity (TFP) as an intermediate, we first demonstrate a …

revenue per employee, value added per employee, total factor productivity, and employment growth. Improving the management … worker by 30 percent, and total factor productivity by 13.5 percent. What drives better management capabilities? Russian …

We examine the link between trade liberalization and aggregate productivity, with a focus on improved market selection … closely on productivity. Using a dynamic simulation, we find that enhanced selection increases aggregate productivity … substantially. Trade liberalization also increases productivity of incumbent plants and improves the allocation of activity. We find …