In analyzing firm productivity in Belgium, this article shows empirically that both scale and efficiency contribute … positively to the typical productivity advantage of foreign affiliates. Stochastic production frontier estimation using the …

It is often argued that foreign firms may enhance the productivity of indigenous firms in an economy, through forward … or backward linkages. Such externality effects typically are called "productivity spillovers". In terms of foreign direct … by foreign companies for over 40 years. This article examines possible productivity spillovers from foreign-owned firms …

This paper contributes to the flourishing literature on exports and productivity by using a unique newly available …

This paper examines the effect of control changes on efficiency and productivity in the banking industry of Argentina … privatization, foreign acquisition of domestic banks and mergers and acquisitions among local institutions. Bank productivity is … privatization had a positive short-term effect on productivity in part as a result of efficiency gains, which were then gradually …

's industrial system is the extent to which growth has been driven by productivity change. A second issue is the relative … productivity performance of enterprises of different ownership types, including a comparison of state-owned versus various forms of … non-state ownership. The third issue is whether productivity across China's key regions-coast, northeast, central, and …

This study estimates and analyzes provincial productivity growth in China for the period 1979-2001. The Malmquist Index … approach allows us to decompose productivity growth into two components, technological progress and efficiency change …. Considerable productivity growth was found for most of the data period, but it was accomplished mainly through technological …

The key to making China wealthy and powerful was to raise total factor productivity. (Dwight Perkins 1988) …

This paper explores the influence of spatial effects on the convergence of total factor productivity (TFP) across …