This paper explores how reductions in tariffs on imported inputs and final goods affect firm productivity by exploiting … importantly, unlike previous findings, reductions in output tariffs have a greater effect on productivity improvement compared …

This paper builds a theory of the shape of the distribution of total-factor productivity (TFP) across countries. The … data on productivity suggests vast differences across countries, and arguably even has "twin peaks". The theory proposed … here is consistent with vast differences in long-run productivity, and potentially also with a twin-peaks outcome, even …

data reveal a startling variation in productivity levels of foreign affiliates across the countries in Eastern Europe of … the same European multinational parent firms suggesting that not all multinationals transplant their home productivity … advantage to the new EU Member States and Emerging Europe. One candidate for this startling difference in productivity levels …

the relationship between firm size, total factor productivity growth and financial structure in China, controlling for the …

variables on a number of issues like cognitive development in children and labour productivity in the developing world. These …

changes in the level of foreign control upon labour productivity in domestically-controlled plants. We distinguish between … use of intermediate inputs. We find that foreign control increases productivity growth in domestically-controlled plants … positive productivity effects of foreign control are more pronounced for those plants that outsource more intermediates, and …

, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this …

The growth of agricultural productivity is widely believed to be low. But this study finds the productivity growth rate … may be an advantage.Martin and Mitra examine the growth and convergence of total factor productivity in agriculture and … rarely tested view that the rate of growth in agricultural productivity is invariably low. But Martin and Mitra find that the …

country, and these spillovers are thought to have consequences on the productivity of domestic firms. Despite this strong … the effects of FDI spillover on firms' productivity in Bangladesh in comparison to Vietnam. We consider both the … productivity improvement through intra-industry or horizontal linkages, whereas Vietnamese firms gain through backward linkages …