International trade has been stated as one of the most important mean of improving firms' productivity, being the … contribute to local firm's productivity performance by incorporating better inputs in their production processes. This paper … of manufacturing formal firms in Ecuador, and, the causal relationship between the import decision and firm productivity …

substantial productivity growth, but some evidence of trade discipline on the price-cost margins. A markup premium is however …

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 …

following business cycle facts: procyclical entry, procyclical aggregate total factor productivity, more procyclicality in …Using plant-level data, I show that the dispersion of total factor productivity in U.S. durable manufacturing is … greater in recessions than in booms. This cyclical property of productivity dispersion is much less pronounced in non …

, measured firm productivity will reflect both true differences in productivity and non-random decisions about which products to … to characterize the direction and magnitude of the resulting bias in productivity and to trace the implications for … provides a new source of reallocation and leads to biased measures of deregulation’s impact on firm and aggregate productivity …

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 …

supply more products than smaller firms, implies that standard productivity measures are highly dependent on implicit demand … system assumptions and probably dramatically understate the relative productivity of the largest firms. Although most firms …

dispersion in revenue productivity should not be dismissed as mere artifacts of misspecification or measurement errors …

liquidity on the dispersion and mean of industry productivity distributions, as well as on industry concentration measures using … find that an increase in the capital liquidity index is associated with a reduction in the productivity dispersion and an … increase in the mean and median of the productivity distribution. In addition, we find that increase in capital liquidity is …