foreign (U.S.) influences (the law of one price), as opposed to domestic factors (i.e., labour, energy costs and productivity … and the law-of-one-price rule: both domestic factors (such as input prices and productivity) and foreign factors (such as …. (3) Industry differences exist. Domestic prices respond more to productivity changes in industries where competition is …

aggregation problem introduces a bias into standard measures of firm productivity. We develop a theoretical model of heterogeneous …

aggregation problem introduces a bias into standard measures of firm productivity. We develop a theoretical model of heterogeneous …

This paper aims at measuring the impact of competition on productivity growth of the Tunisian manufacturing sector at … the firm level. To investi-gate the impact of competition on productivity we use two procedures. The first one is a two … competition raises TFP at the firm level. Competition policies provide sufficient incentives to increase productivity growth at …

This study examines the relation between productivity and exports in Indonesian manufacturing firms by taking account … simultaneous estimates on the interrelation of R&D, productivity, and export show that R&D has a positive impact on both … productivity and exports, suggesting the importance of R&D to Indonesian economic growth. It suggests also a two-way causality …

aggregation problem introduces a bias into standard measures of firm productivity. We develop a theoretical model of heterogeneous …

firms, and the fact that larger firms supply more products than smaller firms, implies that standard productivity measures … are not independent of demand system assumptions and probably dramatically understate the relative productivity of the …

This paper studies the impact of size on labor cost and productivity for Italian manufacturing firms. The distributions … of both labor cost and productivity display a wide support, even when disaggregated by sector of industrial activity …. Further, both labor cost and productivity, when considered alone, are growing with the size of the firm. We investigate this …