This paper explores the productivity impact of trade, product market and financial market policies over the last decade … investigating the link between these policies and productivity growth depending on how far incumbents are relative to the … the potential channels through which productivity is affected by reform. The key conclusion that can be derived from the …

This paper examines how import penetration affects firms' productivity growth taking into account the heterogeneity in … product market regulation measures depending on firms' positions along the global distribution of productivity levels. The … heterogeneous effects of international competition and domestic product market regulation on firm-level productivity growth are …

Manufacturing productivity -- Explanatory factors -- The overall productivity of the economy -- Social infrastructure … differences in a number of factors combine to boost or block productivity. Governments need such information to set priorities …. Investors need it too, and two new rankings are proposed as alternatives to a simple comparison of industrial productivity. The …