inputs. Trade protection can provide space for domestic firms to increase prices and mark-ups, allowing low-productivity … misallocation, leading to aggregate productivity losses of 5-10 per cent. In particular, tariffs are strongly related to distortions … that are correlated with firm productivity. The main channel through which tariffs distort the allocation of capital is …

This paper provides an overview of productivity development and other related indicators in Asian-Pacific (APAC …) countries, with comparisons with the Europe region. We use the seventh vintage firm-level data from the Productivity Research … Network in the APAC region and CompNet in Europe for our study. The overall results show that the productivity growth in …

decline in competition over the period. This increase in market power appears to explain part of the slowdown in productivity … from low-productivity to high-productivity firms. …

of positive effects emerge. With respect to takeovers of German companies by foreign investors, the productivity and … international, we find positive productivity and sales effects for relatively small companies investing abroad, and this …

. Labor productivity rises 8% at targets over two years post buyout (again, relative to controls), with large gains for both … public-to-private and private-to-private buyouts. Target productivity gains are larger yet for deals executed amidst tight … sharply curtails productivity gains in public-to-private and divisional buy-outs. Average earnings per worker fall by 1.7% at …

Labour productivity stagnated in the UK in the years between the financial crisis and the emergence of Covid-19. At the … same time labour supply and employment grew strongly, driven primarily by net inward migration. While labour productivity … that around one-fifth, or 4pp, of the 25 log point fall in productivity from its previous trend can be explained by …

This study examines the impact of imported intermediates on plant productivity and the role of plant capability in …. This study finds that import intensity does not significantly affect productivity. However, the impact of import intensity … on productivity is positive and significant for exporters and for plants with higher capital intensity. Meanwhile, older …

foreign countries) on various firm outcomes (domestic employment, production, and productivity). It uses data from the … destroyed/created due to offshoring. Moreover, we do not find an effect on labour productivity, since the negative effect on …

productivity performance of firms from a catching-up country (Poland) and a leader economy (Germany). Domestic owned firms are less …, the foreign ownership productivity premium decreases, leading to productivity catching up between foreign and domestic … firms' productivity performance is more stable along the GVC distribution. …

Linked employer-employee data from New Zealand is used to study the relationship between a firm's productivity growth … relationship between productivity growth and hiring is compared to the predictions implied by two different channels: worker … quality and knowledge spillover. Although it is not possible to identify a causal relationship, the productivity of a worker …