We investigate the drivers of firm level productivity in catching-up economies by jointly estimating its relationship … competition and innovation have a simultaneous positive effect on labour productivity in terms of either sales or value added per … productivity. …

Value Added and Net Income of farms, as well as indicators regarding factor productivity, highlighting the relationship … between productivity, farm typology and farm size. EUROSTAT and European Commission statistics based on FADN survey from the … correlated with labour productivity. Improving the efficiency of production factors should contribute to reducing the disparities …

productivity, while import liberalization has ambiguous effects. Resource misallocation can either amplify, dampen or reverse the … productivity gains. Guided by theory, we provide evidence consistent with these effects operating through reallocations across … firms in the presence of distortions: (i) Both export and import expansion increase average firm productivity, but the …