knowledge spillovers in Europe have normally focused on localized effects, either on total factor productivity or knowledge …

This paper analyses the effect of innovation on the well-established productivity-export association in the literature …. Here, we argue that actively innovative firms have a higher productivity, which make them more likely to become exporters … further, which may facilitate future productivity. We use the micro-data from two waves of Swedish Community Innovation Survey …

to consider firm, urban and regional heterogeneity and test two possible explanations of the productivity advantages of … almost doubles the productivity premium of a firm in an urban agglomeration. All of our results are robust to changes in …This paper empirically analyzes the agglomeration-related productivity premium at the enterprise level of the …

This study analyzes empirically the effects of import competition on firm productivity (TFPQ) using administrative firm … positive incentives for firms to invest in productivity improvement, whereas import competition from middle- and low …. Costly investment in productivity appears feasible reaction to such type of competition and we find no evidence for …

correspond to asymmetries in the performance of firms with regard to productivity level and growth as well as innovativeness … distinctly higher level of productivity across all types of location. In addition, the productivity level of firms with …

, the limiting factor with negative effects on the field crop productivity being rainfall water. Productivity of crops shows …