Productivity (TFP) at the firm level on a panel of Spanish firms covering the period between 1991 and 2002. We use two alternative …

services. The link between these reforms and the productivity of manufacturing firms is examined using panel data for about 4 … significant positive effects on the productivity of manufacturing firms. Services reforms benefited both foreign and locally … index of services liberalization resulted in a productivity increase of 11.7 percent for domestic firms and 13.2 percent for …

In this paper we confirm the existence of improvements of firm productivity when domestic upstream and downstream firms …, help us confirm that these inter-industry productivity improvements can also be generated form a quasi-trade liberalization … event. Upstream linkages are the dominant source of these productivity benefits and are reaped mainly from medium-low tech …

productivity growth in semi-industrialized economies. These effects are hypothesized to operate through the negative impact of firm … raise productivity in defense of profits, contributing to a low wage-low productivity trap. This paper presents empirical … link between increased firm mobility and lower wages, as well as slower productivity growth over the period 1970-2000. …

develops a theoretical model to analyse the possible effects, and presents an empirical application using productivity data for … productivity growth. As the knowledge transferred through business visits is non-rival, both countries of origin and destination …

total factor and investment-specific productivity measures. Investment-specific productivity measures are reflected by the …

develops a theoretical model to analyse the possible effects, and presents an empirical application using productivity data for … productivity growth. As the knowledge transferred through business visits is non-rival, both countries of origin and destination …

productivity of manufacturing industries relying on services inputs. The results, based on firm-level data from the Czech Republic …

Foreign-owned firms are often hypothesized to generate productivity “spillovers” to the host country, but both …-ante identical workers learn from their employers in proportion to the firm’s productivity. Foreign-owned firms have, on average …, higher productivity in equilibrium due to entry costs, which means that low-productivity foreign firms cannot enter. Foreign …