This paper draws on a sample of innovative Catalan firms to identify the effects of the two main sources of innovation … - internal R&D and external R&D acquisition - on productivity in the manufacturing and service industries. The sample comprises a … regression techniques. Our results suggest the different patterns attributable to the two sources of innovation as we move up …

to influence productivity. To this end we estimate plant-level production functions augmented by regional characteristics …

This paper empirically analyzes the agglomeration-related productivity premium at the enterprise level of the … to consider firm, urban and regional heterogeneity and test two possible explanations of the productivity advantages of …. The results suggest that Russian plants in urban agglomerations enjoy 17-21% higher labor productivity. This gain arises …

innovation and productivity and firms tend to decline in sales and employment. …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 …

. In the model, firms are heterogeneous in productivity. Selection effect and agglomeration economies caused by … agglomeration increase firms' productivity and decreases industrial entry costs, and factor prices are increased because of … shows that the compositive effect is that the influences of productivity on the latter increase with agglomeration level …

The present paper analyses whether and how the affiliation of a firm to a business group affects its productivity … Bureau van Dijk's MARKUS database and from the Cost Structure Panel we assess differences in productivity (1) between … groups, region, sector and size of firms, it is shown that group members have a productivity premium between 6 and 28 …

This paper evaluates the impact of accessibility on the productivity of Spanish manufacturing firms. We suggest the use … Total Factor Productivity level for 2009, which is then explained in the second estimation step as a function of the …, and a smaller effect of the accessibility to workers on firms’ productivity. …