Productivity growth has declined in most advanced economies in the past two decades and there are signs that the pace … - international trade in intermediate inputs - for multi-factor productivity growth using a range of cross-country industry-level data … sources. We find that greater participation in GVCs is associated with faster domestic productivity growth at the industry …

central hubs and peripheral countries and sectors, and examine how these changes impact firm productivity. Using cross … productivity growth of smaller firms, nonfrontier businesses, and of firms in smaller economies and in post-2004 EU member … (centrality weighted) average productivity of buyers matters for the productivity of firms in our data overall, however this is …

in the same region is associated with increasing productivity of local firms, especially in form of cross …

products when competition intensifies in their export destinations and that these dynamics lead to productivity gains at the …

We examine the relationship between lax monetary policy, access to high-yield bond markets and productivity in the US … higher risk profile. Since the relationship between credit ratings and firm-level productivity is U-shaped, the aggregate … effect on productivity is a priori unclear. Turning to the real economy, we thus analyse whether this additional access to …

productivity. The effects are investigated both in isolation and in conjunction with the impact of ICT maturity on microdata in six … proportion of ICT-intensive human capital boosts productivity. This seems to confirm the case in favour of recruitment of highly …