A key priority in China’s “new normal” period -- where returns on investment are slackening -- is corporate governance …, which could lead to enhanced productivity by a better management of resources at the firm level. Corporate governance … performance of particular interest. Productivity is considered as a major measure of firm performance, but for comparison …

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 …

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 …

This paper explores the productivity impact of trade, product market and financial market policies over the last decade … in China – a fast growing country where, despite significant reform action, regulatory stance remains still far from OECD … investigating the link between these policies and productivity growth depending on how far incumbents are relative to the …

This paper examines the links between innovation and productivity in service enterprises. For this purpose, we use … structural model. Our results indicate that innovation in service enterprises is linked to higher productivity. In all three … countries analysed, among the innovation types that we consider, the strongest link between innovation and productivity was …

. Digital technologies offer opportunities to raise firms’ productivity and the population’s well-being. However, wide … productivity gaps between large firms and SMEs and between manufacturing and services weigh on economy-wide productivity, which is …