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

services in output and its integration in the world economy. Productivity growth in the United Kingdom has consistently … financial crisis. Sluggish productivity growth in the service sectors was the main factor behind this weak performance. Raising … productivity will help to sustain employment and wages but will require a broad range of policies. Keeping low barriers to trade …

argued to provide further economic benefits through spillover effects that potentially increase the productivity performance … conditioning the effects of spillovers from multinationals on their productivity. Overall, we find limited evidence or a negative … link between the presence of foreign-owned firms and the productivity of domestic firms in the same industry or the same …

Productivity in Russia has fallen steadily over the past 15 years. This paper explores micro-level data to understand … the contribution of individual firms to aggregate productivity. Overall, firm-level data corroborate the decline in … aggregate productivity and a widening productivity gap against several European countries. They also show that the gap between …