productivity of firms. Development indicators include local research and development activity or education while policy decisions … large national panel of firms. Importantly, such a rich dataset has rarely been employed for productivity and location … choice exercises. The paper is composed of two sections dealing with location choice and productivity, respectively and we …

responsible for 30% of the growth in aggregate total factor productivity in Hungary during the 1990s. About 50% of this effect is …What is the effect of imports on productivity? To answer this question, we estimate a structural model of producers … productivity through expanding variety as well as improved input quality. The model leads to a production function where the total …

We study the role of productivity convergence and financial conditions in the recent growth experience of Hungary. We … build a stochastic, small-open economy growth model with productivity convergence, capital accumulation and external … borrowing. Using empirically identified processes for productivity and the external interest premium, we simulate the effects of …

negative effect of both productivity and foreign ownership. Productivity does not have any role in price and quantity growth …

aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard … decomposition technique to better reflect the role of firm entry, we find that reallocation rates and productivity contributions are … very low under socialism. After reforms, they rise dramatically, and productivity contributions greatly exceed those …

problem was the slow growth of productivity, caused by the slow growth of the manufacturing sector. And why did that matter …? Because he found that productivity of the manufacturing sector was positively related the growth of the manufacturing sector …

universal firm-level panel data and linked employer-employee data for Hungary. Our identification strategy exploits a 23 year …), but suggests a strong cross-firm association of FDI wage premia with similar differentials in productivity. …