age and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … manufacturing industries in Germany using newly available, unique data. We find concave age-productivity profiles and a negative … correlation of age on firms' profitability. Moreover, our micro-econometric analysis reveals for the first time that the ceteris …

associated with increased profitability in such firms. Also, firm productivity and profitability were found to be positively … in import restrictions in Ghana impacted on the performance of firms in terms of profitability in the private sector …? This paper attempts to answer this question by investigating the effects of tariffs on the profitability of private firms …

) productivity growth, as more productive businesses displace less productive ones. However, this research has been limited by the … productivity measures. If prices reflect idiosyncratic demand or market power shifts, high "productivity" businesses may not be … selection and productivity growth using data from industries where we observe producer-level quantities and prices separately …